A Conversation with Mary Jo White

A Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.

Lunch will be available shortly after 12:00 p.m. and the Colloquium will start at around 12:15 p.m.

Please register by Thursday, April 11, 2024.

Mary Jo White is Senior Chair of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, a litigation partner in the New York office of the firm, and leader of the firm's Strategic Crisis Response and Solutions Group.  She previously served as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017 and, under her leadership, the SEC strengthened protections for investors and the markets through transformative rulemakings that addressed major issues raised by the financial crisis, created the framework for the future regulation of the asset management industry, and enhanced equity market structure and disclosure effectiveness. The SEC also instituted changes to enforcement that resulted in greater accountability and record levels of actions and monetary remedies ordered.

Ms. White also served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002. She is the only woman to hold the top position in the more than 200-year history of that office, which has the responsibility of enforcing the federal criminal and civil laws of the nation. Ms. White also served as the first Chairperson of Attorney General Janet Reno’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys from all over the country. Prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, Ms. White served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Acting U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 1990 to 1993. 

David Zornow '80, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow, and Fellow of the YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, will moderate this conversation.