Context: Conversation
Format: Video

“Ike” Hunt – Hall of Honor 2025

Date: June 18, 2025

Attribution: The program is part of a larger annual initiative to recognize, honor and preserve the historical contributions of people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds in the financial regulatory community.

To launch this initiative, a seed gift was made by the Society’s VP of Development and Engagement Ron Long who is leading an effort to gather support for the Hall to honor future awardees.

Interviewed By: SEC Historical Society Trustee Keir Gumbs and Chief Legal Officer Edward Jones

The SEC Historical Society announces the Second Annual Awardees for its Isaac C. Hunt Jr. Hall of Honor. Congratulations to these 2025 Honorees featured in this video:
• Luis A. Aguilar – SEC Commissioner from July 2008 to December 2015. He was a staff attorney at the Atlanta Regional Office from April 1979 through December 1981.
• Carmen J. Lawrence – Regional Director for the SEC’s Northeast Regional from 1995 to 2000. Ms. Lawrence’s SEC Career spans from 1981 to 2000.
• Joy G. Thompson – EXAMS’s Associate Regional Director of the Philadelphia Regional Office, retired from the Commission on March 31, 2025, after 42 years of federal service. Ms. Thompson joined the Commission in 1986.

Background: In 1962, “Ike” Hunt became one of the first African American attorneys at the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, then Corporate Regulation. He went on to have a stellar career in private practice and academia and later returned to the SEC as a Commissioner from 1996 to 2002. To learn more, visit the Spotlight on Ike Hunt.

Learn about the 2024 inaugural Hall of Honor honorees. We encourage you to financially support this special honor and the SEC Historical Society’s mission.