Pamela Gibbs (L’91) was named director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion in January 2012.

Prior to the SEC, Gibbs was director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Before that, Gibbs spent 18 years at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she started as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division and was later acting deputy director for Program Operation in the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Unit in the Employment Standards Administration.

Gibbs is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and holds a master’s degree in public administration from George Mason University.