Stephen J. Friedman, former commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, is the current president of Pace University. Prior to that, Friedman has served as dean of the Pace Law School, and senior partner and co-chairman of Debevoise & Plimpton.
Friedman earned an AB from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1959. Friedman earned a JD from Harvard Law School in 1962, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.