{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1948)}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = 150px| | name = Brian Cartwright | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = SEC General Counsel 2006 - 2009<ref name=qualters>{{Cite journal | last = Qualters | first = Sheri | title = SEC Taps Deputy GC as Acting GC | journal = National Law Journal | date = January 26, 2009 | url = http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1202427706694 }}</ref> | education = Yale University<br />University of Chicago<br />Harvard University | occupation = Lawyer <br/> Former astrophysicist }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-1.htm|title=SEC press release|access-date=2007-12-12}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2008 Cartwright announced he was leaving the SEC.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
Cartwright holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was president of the ''Harvard Law Review'' and winner of the Sears Prize,<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />
Before becoming a lawyer, Cartwright was an astrophysicist graduating from Yale University.<ref name=":1" /> 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.<ref name=":1" /> He published numerous articles in scholarly journals including the Astrophysical Journal.<ref>Brian G. Cartwright, "The Origin of Fluorine, Sodium and Aluminum in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation", Astrophys. J., 169, 299, 1971.</ref><ref name="lawblog">{{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}}</ref>
==Personal life== Brian Cartwright is married with three sons.<ref name="lat">{{cite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x18066.xml|title=Copy of LA Times article|date=2007-02-12|access-date=2007-12-12}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
== See also == *List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8)
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{succession box | before= Giovanni Prezioso| title= SEC General Counsel| years= 2006–2009 | after= Andy Vollmer (acting) }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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