Gerald Hodgkins Named Associate Director In SEC’s Division Of Enforcement

Gerald Hodgkins has been appointed as an Associate Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, a senior position in which he will assist in planning and directing the agency's enforcement efforts. Hodgkins has worked in the Enforcement Division since 1997, overseeing a number of high profile investigations resulting in significant SEC enforcement actions, including cases involving public company accounting and disclosure, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, broker-dealer regulation, options backdating and insider trading. Hodgkins is filling the Associate Director position previously held by Fredric Firestone, who recently left the agency to become a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of McDermott Will & Emery. 

Hodgkins joined the SEC as a staff attorney in the Division of Enforcement and was promoted to Branch Chief in 1999. He became an Assistant Director in 2007.
 
Before coming to the SEC, Hodgkins served as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Richey. He also was a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Howrey LLP. Hodgkins received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Tufts University.