Lori A. Richards will serve as President. Richards served with the SEC from 1985 - 2009, in the Division of Enforcement, on the executive staff of Chairman Arthur Levitt, and as the first Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations. Then, she was a Principal of PwC and Managing Director of JP Morgan.

Richards said, “I’m honored to help lead the SEC Historical Society in preserving and documenting the SEC’s 90-year history protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation. The Society’s Virtual Museum is a resource and a national asset. It helps us see and understand how securities regulation has developed over time — in the context of the challenges of the time — and actively right up through the present.”

Richards succeeds Meredith B. Cross, a partner in the Securities and Transactional Departments in WilmerHale's New York and Washington DC offices, who becomes Chair. "I am so grateful that I have had the opportunity to serve as President of the SEC Historical Society, and I look forward to my year as Chair,” said Cross. “The Society is extremely lucky to have Lori Richards as President – she brings a passion for the work of the SEC Historical Society and the importance of preserving the SEC’s history.”

In addition to Richards and Cross, the 2025 officers are:

• President-Elect Elizabeth P. Gray, Retired Partner, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, Willkie Farr and Gallagher LLP and former SEC Assistant Director, Division of Enforcement and Counsel to Chair Arthur Levitt
• Treasurer Shelley E. Parratt, former Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance
• Secretary Consuelo Hitchcock, Principal in the Regulatory Affairs Group, Deloitte & Touche LLP and former SEC Counsel to the Chair and to the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance          
• Vice President of the Museum G. Jeffrey Boujoukos, Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP and former SEC Regional Director of the Philadelphia Regional Office 
• Vice President of Development and Engagement Ronald C. Long, Special Counsel, Stevens & Lee and former Administrator of the SEC's Philadelphia Office

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Additionally, eight people were elected to the Board of Trustees Class of 2027 for three-year terms.

Six first-time Trustees include:

• Douglas Davison, Partner, Linklaters
• Lorraine B. Echavarria, Partner, WilmerHale
• Arian M. June, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Claudius B. Modesti, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• Kevin Vaughn, Partner, PwC
• David Woodcock, Partner, Gibson Dunn

Incumbents re-elected to serve another three-year term include:

• Daniel M. Hawke, Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
• Haima V. Marlier, Partner in the New York and Boston Office, Morrison Foerster LLP

The Class of 2027 joins the following Trustees:

• James W. Barratt, President, Barratt Consulting Group (BCG)
• Tamara Brightwell, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Peter K.M. Chan, Partner, Baker McKenzie
• Alan L. Dye, Partner Corporate and Finance, Hogan Lovells US LLP    
• K. Susan Grafton, retired Partner, Dechert LLC
• Keir D. Gumbs, Chief Legal Officer, Edward Jones
• Aaron W. Lipson, Partner, Securities Enforcement and Regulation / Special Matters and Government Investigations, King & Spalding LLP
• Lona Nallengara, Partner, A&O Shearman
• Kristofer K. Swanson, Vice President and Practice Leader, Forensic Services, Charles River Associates (CRA)
• Erica Y. Williams, Chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)

We are grateful to the following leaders for serving six years on the Board of Trustees and for their commitment to the Society’s future success through service on the Advisory Board and Committees: William R. Baker III, Latham & Watkins LLP; James R. Burns, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP; Lisa M. Fairfax, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law; Susan G. Markel, AlixPartners LLP and Annette L. Nazareth, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.     

For media inquiries or questions about the announcement, contact Executive Director Kathleen Graham at k.graham@sechistorical.org.

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