RALPH F. BOYD, JR.

Executive Vice President Community Relations, Freddie Mac
Chairman and CEO, Freddie Mac Foundation

Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. was named executive vice president, Community Relations in February 2005. He is a member of the company's leadership team and reports directly to CEO David M. Moffett.

Boyd also serves as chairman and CEO of the Freddie Mac Foundation. In these roles, he oversees the national capital region's largest philanthropic program, which includes corporate giving, employee volunteer activities, and Foundation grant making, while also serving as a member of the Foundation's Investment Committee.

Boyd started at Freddie Mac as executive vice president and general counsel, and head of the external relations and public affairs function.

Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Boyd was a senior partner with the national law firm of Alston & Bird LLP, leading its Washington, D.C. litigation practice. Before that, he served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States for Civil Rights and head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. From 1997 to 2001, Boyd was counsel and then a partner in the trial and Litigation Department of Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston. Previously, he served for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division of the Boston U.S. Attorney's office. Following law school, Boyd served as law clerk to the Honorable Joseph H. Young, U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland, and as an associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray.

Boyd has a long history of involvement in community matters, and currently serves on several non-profit boards. He is chairman of the board of Easter Seals of Greater Washington, vice president and secretary of the Center City Public Charter Schools board of directors, and a member of the executive committee of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). He also is a trustee of the National Housing Partnership Foundation (NHPF), a developer and provider of quality, affordable multi-family housing and resident services. Boyd chairs NHPF's audit committee, and also is a member of its investment committee.

Boyd is a director of the DIRECTV Group, Inc., and a member of its audit committee, and nominating and governance committee. Boyd also has served as the U.S. member of the Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – a United Nations human rights treaty body.

Boyd is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (J.D. 1984), and Haverford College (B.A. 1979). In 2001, he received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Suffolk University.

Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than five million renters.

09/08