In late November when speculation began to build that Mary Schapiro would soon announce her departure from the SEC (which she did on November 26), I wrote a post on this blog on Who Will Be the Next SEC Chairman? At the time, Mary John Miller, the Treasury Department’s under secretary for domestic finance, was said to be the leading candidate, but at least eight other names were being discussed in the press, as well (Walter, Khuzami, Barofsky, Goldschmid, and several others). Two months later, one name that I did not see mentioned anywhere before now seems to have emerged as the new leading candidate to become Chairman of the SEC: Mary Jo White.
