Guffey, Roger

J. Roger Guffey served as the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from March 1, 1976, to September 30, 1991. During Guffey’s tenure he also founded what would become the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic policy symposium, now held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Guffey was born in 1929 in Kingston, Missouri. He earned a degree in business administration from the University of Missouri in 1952 and, after three years in the US Army working with intelligence forces in Germany, he returned to the university to earn a law degree in 1958.1 He practiced law as a partner in the Kansas City law firm Fallon, Guffey and Jenkins for the next 10 years. (Source: Federal Reserve History)