Roberta Sarah Karmel was an American attorney and the Centennial Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law, at Brooklyn Law School.
17 Facts About Roberta Karmel
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Roberta Karmel was the first female Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Roberta Karmel had by her own account a liberal New York Jewish background, which initially made her pro-government intervention in the economy; a sentiment that changed over time.
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Roberta Karmel attended Austin High School, graduating in 1955, and the University of Michigan in 1955.
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Roberta Karmel married her husband Paul Karmel, who died in 1994, after her sophomore year of college.
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Roberta Karmel served as an enforcement attorney, Branch Chief, and Assistant Regional Administrator in the Securities and Exchange Commission's New York Regional Office from 1962 to 1969.
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Roberta Karmel later served as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from September 1977 to February 1980, and was the first female SEC Commissioner in the SEC's 48-year history.
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Roberta Karmel was an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School from 1973 to 1977 and from 1982 to 1985, and was a full professor there starting in 1985.
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Roberta Karmel was Centennial Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law, at Brooklyn Law School.
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Roberta Karmel served as a public director of the New York Stock Exchange from 1983 to 1989, the third woman to serve on its board of directors.
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Roberta Karmel was a trustee and Chair of the Practising Law Institute.
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Roberta Karmel was Co-Chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association and Chair of the AALS Section on Securities Regulation.
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Roberta Karmel was a member of the Advisory Committee on capital markets law to Unidroit, a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
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Roberta Karmel wrote 50 articles in books and legal journals, and has written a regular column on securities regulation for the New York Law Journal.
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Roberta Karmel's book entitled Regulation by Prosecution: The Securities and Exchange Commission vs Corporate America was published by Simon and Schuster in 1982.
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Roberta Karmel received the William O Douglas Award from the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, the Direct Women Award from the Sandra Day O'Connor Board of Excellence, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association, and the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who.
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Roberta Karmel died in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York at the age of 86 on March 23,2024 due to pancreatic cancer.