Senate Confirms Academics Peirce, Jackson as SEC Commissioners

Think-tank scholar Hester Peirce and law school professor Robert Jackson secured Senate confirmation for seats on the SEC on Dec. 21, filling out the five-member commission for the first time since 2015.

Peirce, a Republican from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and Jackson, a Democrat from Columbia Law School, were confirmed by voice vote as the Senate took up a long list of nominations prior to leaving for a holiday recess.

Jackson is director of the Program on Corporate Law and Policy at Columbia, where he helped lead a group of legal academics who petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission ...