Tanya F. Otsuka

Tanya F. Otsuka was nominated by the President to serve on the NCUA Board on September 21, 2023. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed her by voice vote on December 20, 2023, and she was sworn in as a member of the NCUA Board on January 8, 2024.

Prior to joining the NCUA Board, Tanya served as Senior Counsel for the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee under Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH), where she has handled the Committee’s work on banking and credit union issues since March 2020. In 2019, she also served on the Committee staff through the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University’s Capitol Hill Fellowship Program, on detail from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

Prior to her time with the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Otsuka was a staff attorney and counsel at FDIC where she worked on a broad range of banking issues. She began her career at the FDIC as a law clerk in 2010 and an Honors Attorney in 2011.

Otsuka earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School and B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia.