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He was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 13, 2003 and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate.
Snow was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CSX. Snow's previous public service includes having served at the Department of Transportation as Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Deputy Undersecretary, Assistant Secretary for the Governmental Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Plans and International Affairs.
He was Chairman of the Business Roundtable , a business policy group comprised of 250 chief executive officers of the nation's largest companies, from 1994 through 1996 and played a major role in supporting passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
He is a former co-chairman of the Conference Board's Blue-Ribbon Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise . He also served as co-chairman of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement in 1992 that made recommendations following the savings and loan crisis.
In May 2004, it was revealed that Snow's brokers had brought $10 million of debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without his knowledge in February 2003. When Snow found out, he divested the debts. A Treasury ethics lawyer has found that the holdings did not represent a conflict of interest but had the potential to do so in the future. [1]
John Snow was born in Toledo, Ohio, on August 2, 1939, and studied at Kenyon CollegeKenyon College is a private liberal arts college founded in Gambier, Ohio in 1824, by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase. It is Ohio's oldest private institute of higher learning. Originally an all-male institution aligned with the Episcopal Church, it beca and the University of ToledoThe University of Toledo is one of the nation's Research I accredited schools. With a large number of majors, Toledo is the school of choice for many students wanting an affordable and quality public education. The University is nationally known for its p, from where he graduated in 1962. He later earned a Ph.D. in economicsEconomics is the social science studying how society uses its limited resources to meet desires and wants. Put otherwise, economics studies what, how and for whom society produces. This involves analyzing the production, distribution and consumption of go from the University of VirginiaThe University of Virginia (also known as UVa or simply Virginia is a public coeducational university in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded by author of the Declaration of Independence and third American President Thomas Jefferson, and is listed as. Snow graduated with a law degree from the George Washington University in 1967 and then taught economics at the University of MarylandThe University of Maryland is used to refer to any of: University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Maryland, College Park University System of Maryland In recent years, University of Maryland has become synonymous with University of Maryland, College, University of VirginiaThe University of Virginia (also known as UVa or simply Virginia is a public coeducational university in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded by author of the Declaration of Independence and third American President Thomas Jefferson, and is listed as, as well as law at George Washington. He also served as a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a think tank founded in 1943 whose stated mission is to support the "foundations of freedom limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong for in 1977 and a Distinguished Fellow at the Yale School of Management from 1978 until 1980.
Snow lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife Carolyn. He has three children and three grandchildren.