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Diane Sanger Memorial Lecture

Honoring the former Associate General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and her commitment to protecting investors and ensuring fairness in the capital markets

The inaugural Diane Sanger Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 17^th at 5:00 pm, broadcast live from the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America and worldwide on www.sechistorical.org.

The 2010 lecture will be the first in an annual series, recognizing the values that Ms. Sanger supported throughout her life and career, and promoting reasoned intellectual discourse on policies and practices needed to promote regulatory reform and the fairness of capital markets. The SEC Historical Society is grateful to the generosity of the family of Diane Sanger for making possible the lecture series.

The inaugural lecture will be presented by Nell Minow, The Corporate Library, an expert in the fields of shareholder rights, proxy votes, investor protection and corporate social responsibility. Ms. Minow presented the February 2005 Fireside Chat on Shareholder Rights.

In her brief life and career, Diane Sanger shared her keen intellect, commitment to justice and mentoring spirit to the cause of protecting investors and ensuring fairness in the capital markets. A top graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston University School of Law, she began her career at the SEC in the Office of the General Counsel in 1979.

Except for a brief time as visiting staff to U.S. Senator Alphonse D'Amato on the Subcommittee on Securities of the Senate Banking Committee, Ms. Sanger devoted her career to the SEC, rising to the position of Associate General Counsel for Counseling and Regulatory Policy.

The SEC recognized her accomplishments in 1992 with the Philip A. Loomis, Jr. Award, given "to the individual who displays the qualities of outstanding legal scholarship, analysis and draftsmanship; the legal counselor's ability to reconcile opposing viewpoints and create workable solutions to difficult legal and policy issues; and the highest caliber of personal and professional integrity."

In 1994, Ms. Sanger received the Distinguished Service Award, the SEC's highest award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the work of the Commission and the administration of the Federal securities laws.

The lecture will be broadcast live on www.sechistorical.org, free and accessible worldwide without prior registration. To attend the lecture at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, please R.S.V.P. by March 12^th.

This lecture and subsequent Diane Sanger Memorial Lectures will be permanently preserved in the virtual museum and archive.