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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, she served as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 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 has served as a member of the International Public Interest Oversight Board since 2005, as a member of the Public Oversight Board of AICPA, a professional association for Certified Public Accountants in the United States, from 2001 to 2002, and sits on the boards of 3M, Deere & Company, Northrop Grumman and was on the board of Merrill Lynch.