Brian Cartwright

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birth_date = 1948
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known_for = SEC General Counsel 2006 -
occupation = lawyer and former astrophysicist

Brian Cartwright (born in 1948) is a senior lawyer and former astrophysicist. From 2006 he was General Counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission of the USA [cite web|url=http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-1.htm|title=SEC press release|accessdate=2007-12-12] .

Career

On January 3, 2006 the SEC Commission Chair Christopher Cox officially appointed ex-Latham & Watkins partner Brian Cartwright as its top lawyer, replacing Giovanni Prezioso.

Mr. Cartwright, 58, holds a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and winner of the Sears Prize, given every year to the first and second-year students with the highest grade point averages. He served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from 1981 to 1982.

Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cartwright was an astrophysicist graduating from Yale University, he earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago and worked as a research physicist at the University of California at Berkeley’s space sciences laboratory. He published numerous articles in scholarly journals including the Astrophysical Journal [Brian G. Cartwright, "The Origin of Fluorine, Sodium and Aluminum in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation", Astrophys. J., 169, 299, 1971. ] cite web|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/01/03/|title=Law Blog Recommendation|accessdate=2007-12-12] .

Personal life

Brian Cartwright is married with three grown sonscite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x18066.xml|title=Copy of LA Times article|date=2007-02-12|accessdate=2007-12-12]

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