During the first hour of last week’s confirmation hearing for Mary Jo White to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, senators zeroed in on her decade-long tenure at Debevoise & Plimpton.
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) asked White during the March 12 hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs what she had done during her time at the firm that benefited the American public. White, chairwoman of the firm’s litigation department since 2002, started to talk about her experience as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York but was cut off by Brown, who again asked her to talk about her time at Debevoise.
