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Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947) is an American attorney who served as the 31st chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. [2] .
Mary Jo White, who has previously served as the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is Senior Chair of the firm, a litigation partner in the New York office of Debevoise, and leader of the firm’s Strategic Crisis Response and Solutions Group.
Mary Jo White was sworn in as the 31st Chair of the SEC on April 10, 2013. She was nominated to be SEC Chair by President Barack Obama on Feb. 7, 2013, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 8, 2013.
May 8, 2024 · Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) is an American attorney who served as head (2013–17) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Monk was born into a family of lawyers, but her early ambition was to become a doctor.
About Mary Jo White. Under Mary Jo White's leadership, in the fiscal year that ended in September 2015, the Security and Exchange Commission filed a record 807 enforcement actions and...
Feb 24, 2015 · Before President Obama named Mary Jo White to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, she was the top federal prosecutor in New York City.
Nov 14, 2016 · SEC Chair Mary Jo White, after nearly four years as the agency’s head, today announced that she intends to leave at the end of the Obama Administration. Under Chair White’s leadership, the Commission strengthened protections for investors and the markets through transformative rulemakings that addressed major issues highlighted ...
