Brian Cartwright
{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1948)}}
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| name = Brian Cartwright
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}}
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| known_for = SEC General Counsel 2006 - 2009{{Cite journal
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| title = SEC Taps Deputy GC as Acting GC
| journal = National Law Journal
| date = January 26, 2009
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| education = Yale University
University of Chicago
Harvard University
| occupation = Lawyer
Former astrophysicist
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Brian G. Cartwright (born 1948) is an American lawyer and former astrophysicist. From 2006 to 2009, he was general counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission of the USA.{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-1.htm|title=SEC press release|access-date=2007-12-12}}
Career
On January 3, 2006, the SEC Commission Chair Christopher Cox officially appointed ex-Latham & Watkins partner Brian G. Cartwright as its top lawyer, replacing Giovanni Prezioso.{{Cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Deborah |last2=Scannell |first2=Kara |date=7 December 2005 |title=SEC Chief to Name Ex-Colleague To Top Legal Job |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113391061925815558 |access-date=2024-04-16 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Peterson |first=Jonathan |date=2006-01-03 |title=Lawyer in L.A. Seen as Pick for SEC Post |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-03-fi-sec3-story.html |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Brian Cartwright Named SEC General Counsel; 2006-1; Jan. 3, 2006 |url=https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-1.htm |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=www.sec.gov}} In 2008 Cartwright announced he was leaving the SEC.{{Cite web |title=General Counsel Brian Cartwright Leaving SEC to Return to Private Sector (Press Release No. 2008-277; November 20, 2008 |url=https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-277.htm |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=www.sec.gov}}
Cartwright holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review and winner of the Sears Prize,{{Cite news |last=Burns |first=Judith |date=4 January 2006 |title=SEC Names Brian Cartwright Its New General Counsel |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113631424476336702 |access-date=2024-04-16 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US}} given every year to the first and second-year students with the highest grade point averages. He served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from 1981 to 1982.
Before becoming a lawyer, Cartwright was an astrophysicist graduating from Yale University. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and worked as a research physicist at the University of California at Berkeley's space sciences laboratory. He published numerous articles in scholarly journals including the Astrophysical Journal.Brian G. Cartwright, "The Origin of Fluorine, Sodium and Aluminum in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation", Astrophys. J., 169, 299, 1971.{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/01/03/|title=Law Blog Recommendation|access-date=2007-12-12 | work=The Wall Street Journal}}
Personal life
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Category:Harvard Law School alumni
Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States