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Leader Biographies:
Karen Solomon
Director, Legislative & Regulatory Activities Division
Karen Solomon is the director of the Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
In that capacity, Ms. Solomon participates in and supervises legal work that includes the development and drafting of the OCC's regulations; analysis
and drafting of legislative initiatives of importance to the national banking system and the OCC; and analysis and advice pertaining to the federal
preemption of state law, the regulatory capital requirements that apply to national banks, and the OCC's oversight of federal branches and agencies of
foreign banks, and the international activities of national banks.
Ms. Solomon joined the staff of the OCC in 1995. From 1991 through 1994, she was a deputy chief counsel at the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
for the management of work on regulations, legislation, and the preparation of that agency's administrative decisions in contested enforcement matters.
She began government service in 1985 at the OTS's predecessor agency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Before that, she had been in private
practice representing clients in landlord-tenant and domestic relations matters, as well as corporate matters for small business clients. Ms. Solomon
began her career teaching at her alma mater, the Catholic University Law School, from 1979 to 1981.
She received her juris doctor in 1979 and her bachelor's of arts in Latin in 1974 from Catholic University.
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