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Securities

Dec. 9, 2009

View From Top on Securities Oversight

President George W. Bush appointed veteran Securities and Exchange Commission staff lawyer Elisse B. Walter to her dream job -- a seat on the agency's 5-member board -- during the worst financial crisis in a generation.

By Gabe Friedman

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Elisse B. Walter spent 15 years as a staff attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, rising to the level of deputy director in the corporation finance division.

Walter then departed the SEC and worked as the general counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and then as a senior executive vice president at FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory A...

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