Board Staff
Mary M. Sjoquist, Special Counsel to Board Member Bill Gradison
Prior to joining the PCAOB in May 2003, Ms. Sjoquist was a partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP where she chaired the firm’s Business Practice group. Ms. Sjoquist has been a securities practitioner for more than 20 years and has focused her practice on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, representation of public companies reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, crisis management and corporate governance. In addition to her private practice experience, Ms. Sjoquist also spent four years with the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.
Ms. Sjoquist has a Juris Doctor degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and is active in the American Bar Association’s Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and the Securities Subcommittee of the Small Business Committee.
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