Commission Selects Acting Chief Accountant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2002-160

Washington, D.C., November 12, 2002 -- Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey L. Pitt today announced that the Commission unanimously selected Jackson M. Day as Acting Chief Accountant for the SEC. Day, 38, has served as the Commission's Deputy Chief Accountant since Sept. 15, 2000. Prior to joining the Commission's staff, Day was a partner in Ernst & Young's National Office of Professional Practice in New York. Day graduated in 1986 from Kansas State University with a B.S. in Business Administration.