H. Joe Selby

Dates Served: May 5, 1985 – December 1, 1985

H. Joe Selby served as Acting Comptroller of the Currency for several months, following the resignation of C. Todd Conover, the 25^th Comptroller of the Currency, and before the arrival of Robert L. Clarke, the 26^th Comptroller.

Mr. Selby joined the OCC in 1954 and spent 30 years as a bank examiner, rising to the position of Senior Deputy Comptroller for Operations. He played a key leadership role in reorganizing the agency’s field operations and also served on the Treasury Executive Institute, to help implement changes arising from the Haskins & Sells study of the OCC. In 1980, Mr. Selby he was presented the second highest award bestowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, for “outstanding managerial expertise … in formulating and maintaining unusually high standards of bank supervision of 355 national banks with 2,765 branches and assets exceeding $43 billion.”

Mr. Selby was born in Ganado, Texas on December 9, 1931. The son of a state banker, he graduated from the University of Texas in 1954.