Randall Guynn

Randall Guynn is senior advisor to Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, he was a lawyer for 38 years at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He became a partner in 1993 and served as head of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group from 1994-2022 and senior chairman from 2023 until he joined the Federal Reserve in May 2025. He was widely regarded as one of the nation’s top bank M&A lawyers and a thought leader in financial regulation for more than two decades. He was ranked as a star lawyer in bank regulation and band 1 in bank M&A by Chambers USA and Chambers Global. During his career, he was named the top banking lawyer in the world by Who’s Who and one of the most innovative lawyers by the Financial Times. He is the author of several books and numerous articles and other publications.

Prior to joining Davis Polk, he was a law clerk for Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of the United States and to the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of law in 1984 and a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University in1981.

He and his wife, Robin, are the parents of seven children.