Aulana Peters
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Aulana L. Peters is a director of Northrop Grumman, and holds other corporate positions as well. She was formerly the commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Peters earned degree in philosophy from the College of New Rochelle in New York, and then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California. Peters joined the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles as an associate in 1973. She focused on commercial litigation, including class action suits and SEC enforcement actions. She became a partner in the firm in 1980, but resigned in 1984 to accept an appointment as the commissioner of the SEC under President Ronald Reagan. When Reagan's term ended, so did Peters', and she returned to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1988, where she remained until her retirement in 2000.
In 1999 she was elected to Northrop Grumman's board of directors, a position she still holds. She served as a member of the Public Oversight Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 2001 and 2002. She was elected to the Deere & Company board of directors in 2002. She is also a director at 3M, Merrill Lynch, and the public television station KCET. She currently serves on the Accountability Advisory Council of the U.S. Comptroller General, and on the Market Regulatory Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange.
