Pamela Gibbs Selected as SEC OMWI Director
"The Securities and Exchange Commission..announced that Pamela A. Gibbs has been named as the inaugural Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, which oversees diversity in the agency's employment, management, and business activities. Ms. Gibbs comes to the SEC from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where she has served since October 2009 as the Director of its Office of Diversity and Inclusion. In that role, Ms. Gibbs was the principal advisor to the CFTC Chairman on equal employment and diversity matters, and oversaw outreach and recruitment of minority and women's groups. She also worked with the agency's Office of General Counsel and Office of Human Resources to ensure fairness and consistency in the agency's personnel policies and practices. Prior to the CFTC, Ms. Gibbs.. started in 1991 as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division (of the Department of Labor). She later was Acting Deputy Director for Program Operation in the Offic