Aulana L. Peters

Aulana L. Peters is a retired partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she was active partner from 1980 to 1984 and from 1988 to 2000. [http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromPersonIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedPersonId=939248 Aulana Peters "tear sheet"] at Forbes.com]

From 1984 until 1988, she served as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ["Fraud Bill Draws Fire," "New York Times," June 20, 1986, page d6] , and as a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. ["Global Overseer of Auditing Rules Is Born," Floyd Norris, "New York Times," March 1, 2005, p. c9] She was the first African American ever to serve as a commissioner of the SEC, and only the third woman ever to do so. ["The Peters Principle," "Executive Financial Woman," Jan/Feb 1986, p.29]

According to her resume at Forbes.com, she has served as a member of the International Public Interest Oversight Board since 2005, as a member of the Public Oversight Board of AICPA, a professional association for Certified Public Accountants in the United States, from 2001 to 2002, and sits on the boards of 3M Company, Deere & Company, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Northrop Grumman Corporation.

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