Back in September, Broc Romanek polled his readers on TheCorporateCounsel.net about when they believe SEC Chair Mary Jo White will serve her last day at the SEC. I guessed by the end of Q1 2017, and that turned out to be the most popular answer, receiving 42% of the 82 votes cast (see below).
In a Bloomberg article today, Benjamin Bain and Robert Schmidt report that Chair White has “has privately told agency officials that people with ties to both the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns have asked if she would consider staying on to give the next president time to pick a successor.” If Chair White agrees to do so, this would extend her term to some point in time beyond the January 20, 2017 swearing-in of the next president. Chair White reportedly stated that she expected any holdover to be brief, meaning that the end of Q1 2017 might still be a solid guess.
