Julie A. Gould
Vice President, Community Lending
Fannie Mae

Julie A. Gould is Fannie Mae's Vice President for Community Lending. She develops community reinvestment and community lending products and transactions for expanding homeownership opportunities. Her group designs new partnerships, products, and transactions to meet Fannie Mae's American Dream commitment for people and communities most in need by 2010.

Gould joined Fannie Mae as Assistant Director of low- and moderate-income housing in 1988, and became Director of low- and moderate-income housing in 1989. She was elected Vice President in November 1991. From February through August 1995, she was Acting Housing Impact Vice President in the Midwestern Regional Office establishing a new division and three Partnership Offices. As Vice President of Community Lending from 1991–1996, she designed the company's flagship affordable housing product—the Community Home Buyer's Program, the HomePath initiative to increase the quality of home buyer education nationally, and FannieMaps, a software application to encourage lenders to greenline.

Since 1994, she has consulted with the South African Housing Ministry as a past of a Fannie Mae project to increase community lending and home-buyer education to lower-income South Africans.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Gould was budget examiner with the Office of Management and Budget, deputy staff director at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Vice President at the Federal Asset Disposition Association. She also worked for three members of Congress.
Gould received a Master in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.