Aulana L. Peters

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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.^[1]

From 1984 until 1988^[1], she served as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)^[2], and as a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.^[3] She was the first African American ever to serve as a commissioner of the SEC, and only the third woman ever to do so.^[4]

According to her resume at Forbes.com^[1], 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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^ ^a ^b ^c Aulana Peters "tear sheet" at Forbes.com
^ "Fraud Bill Draws Fire," New York Times, June 20, 1986, page d6
^ "Global Overseer of Auditing Rules Is Born," Floyd Norris, New York Times, March 1, 2005, p. c9
^ "The Peters Principle," Executive Financial Woman, Jan/Feb 1986, p.29