Mary Jo White

Official Portrait of Mary Jo White (2013)

Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American legal scholar. She was the 31st chairwoman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). and was the first woman United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002 . On January 24, 2013, she was nominated by the President of the United States , Barack Obama , to succeed Elisse B. Walter as SEC Chairwoman. The Senate confirmed it on April 8, 2013; she was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. On November 14, 2016, she announced that she would be resigning from office at the end of Obama's reign . On May 4, 2017, Jay Clayton succeeded her as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

life and career

White was born in Kansas City, Missouri , and grew up in McLean, Virginia . In 1970 she graduated from the College of William & Mary with a BA . In 1971 she received an MA in Psychology from The New School for Social Research and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1974 , where she also worked as an editor for the student legal journal Columbia Law Review .

In December 1992 White became acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and thus the highest criminal prosecutor for federal crimes in the southern part of the state of New York, i.e. in the eight counties of New York , Bronx , Westchester , Putnam , Rockland , Orange , Dutchess and Sullivan . She had previously held the post of federal attorney for the eastern district of New York. Then in March 1993, President Bill Clinton named her a regular officer for the southern district. During her tenure, she oversaw the prosecution of John Gotti and the charges against the terrorists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ; Among them was Ramzi Yousef , one of the masterminds.

After President Clinton's controversial series of pardons on the last day of his tenure, she was called by the new United States Attorney General , John Ashcroft , to investigate Marc Rich's pardon .

For 10 years she was the head of the litigation department of the major international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton . The Huffington Post described her as "a renowned attorney who led high-profile cases against mobsters, terrorists and financial fraudsters for almost a decade as a US attorney for Manhattan". In the magazine Rolling Stone was summarily told that White, among other duties at Debevoise & Plimpton their influence and connections used to certain operating on Wall Street CEOs to protect from prosecution on bemerkenswertesten in the case of dismissal of Gary J. Aguirre due Investigation against then CEO of Morgan Stanley , John J. Mack .

In 2013 she was involved in the charges against Aaron Swartz as an attorney for JSTOR . Here she asked the leading prosecutor to drop the charges.

In 2014, she was listed at number 73 on Forbes Magazine's list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World .

Web links

PBS interview with Mary Jo White (May 2002)
TIME profile of Mary Jo White (March 2001)
Securities Regulation Institute Faculty
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Footnotes

↑ www.sec.gov: Current SEC Commissioners (accessed January 21, 2017)
↑ ^a ^b ^c 2001 CNN profile of Mary Jo White CNN. (February 6, 2001).
^ Mary Jo White, Obama Pick to Head SEC , huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
^ Senate confirms White to head SEC , boston.com. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
↑ Nominations of: Richard Cordray and Mary Jo White: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, 103th Congress, First Session, on Nominations of Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection; Mary Jo White, of New York, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, March 12, 2013
↑ https://www.sec.gov: SEC Chair Mary Jo White Announces Departure Plans
↑ washingtonpost.com
↑ FAZ.net
↑ United States: Wall Street attorney confirmed as head of the stock exchange regulator . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 3, 2017, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 7, 2017]).
^ John Wasik: Mary Jo White: Good Cop or Bad Cop for Wall Street? , Forbes.com. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
^ Mary Jo White - Debevoise bio . Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2013. @1@ 2

^ Mary Jo White, Obama Pick to Head SEC ... , The Huffington Post. Mark Gongloff contributed reporting. January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 31, 2013.

↑ Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail . Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 25, 2013.

^ Daniel Wagner: Swartz 'death fuels debate over computer crime . In: Associated Press , January 13, 2013. "JSTOR's attorney, Mary Jo White - formerly the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan - had called the lead Boston prosecutor in the case and asked him to drop it, said Peters."

personal data
SURNAME	White, Mary Jo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American legal scholar, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kansas City , Missouri

[1] www.sec.gov: Current SEC Commissioners (accessed January 21, 2017)

[cnnprofile-2] 2001 CNN profile of Mary Jo White CNN. (February 6, 2001).

[3] Mary Jo White, Obama Pick to Head SEC , huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2013.

[4] Senate confirms White to head SEC , boston.com. Retrieved April 8, 2013.

[5] Nominations of: Richard Cordray and Mary Jo White: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, 103th Congress, First Session, on Nominations of Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection; Mary Jo White, of New York, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, March 12, 2013

[6] ttps://www.sec.gov: SEC Chair Mary Jo White Announces Departure Plans

[7] washingtonpost.com

[8] FAZ.net

[9] United States: Wall Street attorney confirmed as head of the stock exchange regulator . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 3, 2017, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 7, 2017]).

[10] John Wasik: Mary Jo White: Good Cop or Bad Cop for Wall Street? , Forbes.com. Retrieved January 25, 2013.

[11] Mary Jo White - Debevoise bio . Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2013. @1@ 2

[12] Mary Jo White, Obama Pick to Head SEC ... , The Huffington Post. Mark Gongloff contributed reporting. January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 31, 2013.

[13] Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail . Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 25, 2013.

[stuff1-14] Daniel Wagner: Swartz 'death fuels debate over computer crime . In: Associated Press , January 13, 2013. "JSTOR's attorney, Mary Jo White - formerly the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan - had called the lead Boston prosecutor in the case and asked him to drop it, said Peters."