Aulana L. Peters is a retired partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she was active partner from 1980 to 1984 and from 1988 to 2000.[1]
From 1984 until 1988[1], she served as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)[2], and as a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.[3] She was the first African American ever to serve as a commissioner of the SEC, and only the third woman ever to do so.[4]
According to her resume at Forbes.com[1], she has served as a member of the International Public Interest Oversight Board since 2005, as a member of the Public Oversight Board of AICPA, a professional association for Certified Public Accountants in the United States, from 2001 to 2002, and sits on the boards of 3M Company, Deere & Company, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Northrop Grumman Corporation.