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.

Career

On January 3, 2006, the SEC Commission Chair

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officially appointed ex- Latham & Watkins partner Brian G. Cartwright as its top lawyer, replacing Giovanni Prezioso. Mr. Cartwright holds a

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from

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

, where he was president of the

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and winner of the Sears Prize, 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 The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from 1981 to 1982. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cartwright was an astrophysicist graduating from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, he earned a Ph.D. in physics from the

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and worked as a research physicist at the

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at Berkeley's space sciences laboratory. He published numerous articles in scholarly journals including the

Astrophysical Journal ''The Astrophysical Journal'', often abbreviated ''ApJ'' (pronounced "ap jay") in references and speech, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and Jame ...

.Brian G. Cartwright, "The Origin of Fluorine, Sodium and Aluminum in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation", Astrophys. J., 169, 299, 1971.

Personal life

Brian Cartwright is married with three grown sons.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cartwright, Brian 1948 births Living people American lawyers Harvard Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

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