US Attorney Yang being considered for SEC chair
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Former US Attorney Debra Wong Yang is being considered to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Trump administration, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
Yang is a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles where she represents corporate defendants in white-collar crime investigations and compliance matters.
Previously, Yang served as the first female Asian-American US attorney. She was appointed to the Central District of California by Republican President George W. Bush in 2002 and left in 2006 to join Gibson Dunn.
Yang is a longtime friend of Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and donated to his presidential campaign.
If tapped, she would become the second consecutive former federal prosecutor to lead the SEC.
