Aulana L. Peters

Aulana Louise Peters (born November 30, 1941, in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a retired partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she was active partner from 1980 to 1984 and from 1988 to 2000.

From 1984 until 1988, and as a board member of the Public Interest Oversight Board. She was the first African American ever to serve as a commissioner of the SEC, and only the third woman ever to do so.

According to her resume at Forbes.com, She was also appointed as a director at 3M. She was formerly a board member of Merrill Lynch and the public television station KCET. She currently serves on the Accountability Advisory Council of the U.S. Comptroller General, and on the Market Regulatory Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. She has also served on Southern California Edison's Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund Committee for the past 10 years (two terms), and is currently under consideration for reappointment for another 5-year term.

Peters was appointed to the International Public Interest Oversight Board for Auditing, Education and Professional Ethics Standards in 2005 and held that role until 2012. She has also served on the United States Comptroller General’s Accountability Advisory Panel and on the Advisory Board to the Public Company Accountants Oversight Board.

In 2003, the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni named her the recipient of the William O. Douglas Award. In 2010, she was awarded the Medal of Honor by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for distinguished service by a non-accountant to the accounting profession.