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Mary Beth Sullivan, Counsel to the Inspector General
Ms. Sullivan is the Counsel to the Inspector General at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). She has been with the Office of Inspector General (OIG) since 1994, first as Associate Counsel and then as Counsel. She provides legal advice to the Inspector General and OIG audit and investigative staff on a wide variety of issues. She also oversees the OIG’s Hotline and complaint intake process, and is a Contractor Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) for several of the OIG’s contracts. Ms. Sullivan is active in the OIG legal community and currently serves as Chair of the Council of Counsels to the Inspectors General. She is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.
Prior to joining the SEC OIG, Ms. Sullivan practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Seyfarth, Shaw LLP for approximately eight years, specializing in litigation and white-collar criminal defense matters. While at Seyfarth Shaw, she represented defendants in several high-profile cases arising out of the Maryland savings and loan crisis, Operation Ill-Wind and the Iran-Contra affair. Ms. Sullivan was also previously employed for approximately three years as a staff and senior accountant at Price Waterhouse in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ms. Sullivan is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, where she received her Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in Economics/Accounting from the College of the Holy Cross in 1980, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Sullivan also received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a legal writing assistant instructor and moot court participant and judge.
