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This page is about the attorney and civil servant; for the Pennsylvania State Senator, see Mary Jo White (Pennsylvania politician).

Vorlage:Infobox officeholder Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947) is the 31st and current Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. She was the first woman to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002.[1] On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chairwoman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[2] She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013 and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013.[3][4] As of 2014, she is listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[5]

Life and career

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[6] and a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1974,[1] 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 overseen prosecutions of John Gotti and the terrorists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, chief among them Ramzi Yousef.

After President Clinton's controversial last day presidential pardons, she was appointed by new Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate Marc Rich's pardon.[1]

For 10 years, she was chair of the litigation department at Debevoise & Plimpton.[7] The Huffington Post called her "a well-respected attorney who won high-profile cases against mobsters, terrorists and financial fraudsters over the course of nearly a decade as the U.S. attorney for Manhattan."[8]

It has been asserted summarily in Rolling Stone magazine that, among other duties at Debevoise, White has used her influence and connections to protect certain Wall Street CEOs from prosecution,[9] including a notable case involving the firing of Gary J. Aguirre for investigations into the CEO of Morgan Stanley executive John J. Mack.

In 2013, she was involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz as lawyer for JSTOR, where she asked the lead prosecutor to drop the charges.[10]

As of 2014, she is listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[5]

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  1. ↑ a b c 2001 CNN profile of Mary Jo White CNN. (February 6, 2001). Retrieved February 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Mary Jo White, Obama Pick to Head SEC, huffingtonpost.com, January 24, 2013. Abgerufen im 25 January 2013 
  3. ↑ Senate confirms White to head SEC, boston.com. Abgerufen im 8 April 2013 
  4. ↑ Nominations of: Richard Cordray and Mary Jo White: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth 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
  5. ↑ a b The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In: Forbes. Forbes, abgerufen am 26. Juni 2014.
  6. ↑ John Wasik: Mary Jo White: Good Cop or Bad Cop for Wall Street?, Forbes.com. Abgerufen im 25 January 2013 
  7. ↑ Mary Jo White -- Debevoise bio. Abgerufen am 25. Januar 2013.
  8. ↑ Mary Jo White, Obama Pick to Head SEC...., The Huffington Post. Mark Gongloff contributed reporting. January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
  9. ↑ Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail. Rolling Stone, abgerufen am 25. Januar 2013.
  10. ↑ 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.“ 
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