The SEC announced that Anne Small has been named a Deputy General Counsel in the SEC’s Office of General Counsel, and will join the agency staff in late March.  Ms. Small succeeds Mark Cahn, who was promoted to General Counsel last month.  She'll serve as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Adjudication, a role in which she will help oversee enforcement matters, appellate cases, and adjudications.

Ms. Small comes to the SEC from the New York office of WilmerHale LLP, where she was a litigation partner - involved in commercial and securities litigation, a broad range of civil and criminal matters, and trial and appellate work.

Ms. Small began her law career as law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the Supreme Court of the U.S.  She received her JD in 2001 from Harvard Law where she was awarded the Sears Prize and served as President of the Harvard Law Review.  She earned her BA from Yale University in 1996.   [SEC Release 11-71, 3/24]