Mary Jo White
| Mary Jo White | |
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| 31st Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission | |
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In office April 10, 2013 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Elisse Walter |
| Succeeded by | Michael Piwowar (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 27, 1947 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | John White |
| Education |
College of William and Mary (BA) New School (MA) Columbia University (JD) |
Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947) is an American attorney who served as the 31st Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. White served from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013 and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. As of 2014, she was listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
On November 14, 2016, White announced she would step down from her SEC position at the end of the president's term.
White was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in McLean, Virginia. She received a B.A. from the College of William & Mary in 1970. She earned an M.A. in psychology in 1971 from The New School for Social Research and a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1974, where she was a Writing & Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review.
White became Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in December 1992, and in March 1993 was appointed by President Bill Clinton as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. She is noted for having led the prosecution of John Gotti and overseen those of the terrorists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, chief among them Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and Ramzi Yousef.
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