Annette Nazareth
| Annette L. Nazareth | |
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| Securities and Exchange Commissioner | |
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In office August 4, 2005 – January 31, 2008 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
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| Born |
January 27, 1956 Providence, Rhode Island |
| Spouse(s) | Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
| Alma mater |
Brown University, Columbia Law School |
Annette LaPorte Nazareth (born January 27, 1956) is an American attorney who served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from August 4, 2005 to January 31, 2008. She is currently a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell working on complex regulatory matters and transactions in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
Born on January 27, 1956, in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1978, Nazareth graduated from Brown University with an A.B., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She went on to receive a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
She is married to Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., former vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and current President and CEO of TIAA-CREF. They have two children.
Following law school, Nazareth was an associate with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in 1981. From 1986 to 1994, she served as Managing Director and General Counsel of Mabon Securities Corp. and its predecessor business, Mabon, Nugent & Co. From 1994 to 1997, Nazareth was a Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel of the fixed income division of Lehman Brothers. From 1997 to 1998, she was a Managing Director of Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney unit as deputy head of the capital markets legal group.
In 1998, Nazareth joined the Securities and Exchange Commission as Senior Counsel to former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt and served briefly as the Interim Director of the Division of Investment Management. She then served as SEC Director of the Division of Market Regulation from March 1999 to August 2005. As Director, she had primary responsibility for the supervision and regulation of the U.S. securities markets.
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