Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed by the President of the United States:

Under Franklin D. Roosevelt:

  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr - 1934-35 (Chair: 1934-35)
  • George C. Mathews - 1934-40
  • James M. Landis - 1934-37 (Chair: 1935-37)
  • Robert E. Healy - 1934-46
  • Ferdinand Pecora - 1934-35
  • J.D. Ross - 1935-37
  • William O. Douglas - 1936-39 (Chair: 1937-39)
  • Jerome N. Frank - 1937-41 (Chair: 1939-41)
  • John W. Hanes - 1938
  • Edward C. Eicher - 1938-42 (Chair: 1941-42)
  • Leon Henderson - 1939-41
  • Sumner T. Pike - 1940-46
  • Ganson Purcell - 1941-46 (Chair: 1942-46)
  • Edmund Burke, Jr - 1941-43
  • Robert H. O'Brien - 1942-44
  • Robert K. McConnaughey - 1943-49
  • James J. Caffrey - 1945-47 (Chair: 1946-47)

Under Harry S. Truman:
  • Richard B. McEntire - 1946-53
  • Edmond M. Hanrahan - 1946-49 (Chair: 1948-49)
  • Harry A. McDonald - 1947-52 (Chair: 1949-52)
  • Paul R. Rowen - 1948-55
  • Donald C. Cook - 1949-53 (Chair: 1952-53)
  • Edward T. McCormick - 1949-51
  • Robert I. Millonzi - 1951-52
  • Clarence H. Adams - 1952-56
  • J. Howard Rossbach - 1952-53

Under Dwight D. Eisenhower:
  • Ralph H. Demmler - 1953-55 (Chair: 1953-55)
  • J. Sinclair Armstrong - 1953-57 (Chair: 1955-57)
  • A.J. Goodwin, Jr - 1953-55
  • Andrew Downey Orrick - 1955-60
  • Harold C. Patterson - 1955-60
  • Earl F. Hastings - 1956-61
  • James C. Sargent - 1956-60
  • Edward N. Gadsby - 1957-61 (Chair: 1957-61)
  • Byron D. Woodside - 1960-67
  • Daniel J. McCauley - 1960-61

Under John F. Kennedy:
  • J. Allen Frear, Jr - 1961-63
  • William L. Cary - 1961-64 (Chair: 1961-64)
  • Manuel F. Cohen - 1961-69 (Chair: 1964-69)
  • Jack M. Whitney II - 1961-64

Under Lyndon B. Johnson:
  • Hugh F. Owens - 1964-73
  • Hamer H. Budge - 1964-71 (Chair: 1969-71)
  • Francis M. Wheat - 1964-69
  • Richard B. Smith - 1967-71

Under Richard Nixon:
  • James J. Needham - 1969-72
  • Albert Sydney Herlong - 1969-73
  • William J. Casey - 1971-73 (Chair: 1971-73)
  • Philip A. Loomis, Jr - 1971-82
  • John R. Evans - 1973-83
  • G. Bradford Cook - 1973 (Chair: 1973)
  • Ray Garrett, Jr - 1973-75 (Chair: 1973-75)
  • A.A. Sommer, Jr - 1973-76
  • Irving M. Pollack - 1974-80

Under Gerald Ford:
  • Roderick M. Hills - 1975-77 (Chair: 1975-77)

Under Jimmy Carter:
  • Harold M. Williams - 1977-81 (Chair: 1977-81)
  • Roberta S. Karmel - 1977-80
  • Stephen J. Friedman - 1980-81
  • Barbara S. Thomas - 1980-83

Under Ronald Reagan:
  • John S.R. Shad - 1981-87 (Chair: 1981-87)
  • Bevis Longstreth - 1981-84
  • James C. Treadway, Jr - 1982-85
  • Charles C. Cox - 1983-89
  • Charles L. Marinaccio - 1984-85
  • Aulana L. Peters - 1984-88
  • Joseph A. Grundfest - 1985-90
  • Edward H. Fleischman - 1986-92
  • David S. Ruder - 1987-89 (Chair: 1987-89)
  • Mary L. Schapiro - 1988-94

Under George H. W. Bush:
  • Richard C. Breeden - 1989-93 (Chair: 1989-93)
  • Philip R. Lochner, Jr - 1990-91
  • Richard Y. Roberts - 1990-95
  • J. Carter Beese, Jr - 1992-94

Under Bill Clinton:
  • Arthur Levitt, Jr. - 1993-2001 (Chair: 1993-2001)
  • Steven Wallman - 1994-97
  • Norman S. Johnson - 1996-2000
  • Isaac C. Hunt, Jr - 1996-2002
  • Paul R. Carey - 1997-2001
  • Laura Unger - 1997-2002

Under George W. Bush:
  • Harvey Pitt - 2001-03 (Chair: 2001-03)
  • Cynthia Glassman - 2002-present
  • Paul Atkins - 2002-present
  • Roel Campos - 2002-present
  • Harvey Goldschmid - 2002-present
  • William Donaldson - 2003-present (Chair: 2003-present)