Just How Rich Is Mary Jo White, SEC Chair?

[Addison]

from Above the Law

Mary Jo White? More like Mary Jo Green. President Obama’s pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission is deliciously rich, as revealed in her financial disclosures.

Although she’s barely five feet tall, making her a little litigatrix, Mary Jo White wears big shoes. In the words of my colleague Elie Mystal, a former Debevoise & Plimpton associate, she’s “one of those alpha dog partners…. the kind of partner that makes other partners stammer, shuffle papers, and try to look really busy and intelligent when she’s in the room.”

The sizable net worth of Mary Jo White shouldn’t surprise anyone. Not only is she a longtime Debevoise partner, but her husband, John W. White, has been a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore for more than 25 years (interrupted from 2006 through 2008 by a stint at the SEC, actually, where he served as Director of the Division of Corporation Finance).

Let’s get a sense of Mary Jo White’s fortune….

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/02/just-how-rich-is-mary-jo-white-debevoise-partner-and-likely-future-sec-chair/#more-223606

[babylonsister]

1. Good, so she's not in it for the money. nt

[russspeakeasy]

2. it would be dangerous to assume that..

[blkmusclmachine]

3. The rich can never have enough money. Where you been hiding, babylonsister?

[babylonsister]

4. Where you been?

I do remember she's been a fast friend of the Prez for years. He must know something about her I/you don't.

[Ash_F]

5. You have a point.

A lot of government officials use their positions as a revolving door into cushy high paying consulting jobs after 2-4 years. Any such job would not be 'high paying' for someone like her.

Still, a dangerous assumption as the other poster said.