Mary Sjoquist is Director of the PCAOB's Office of Outreach and Small Business Liaison. She became Director of Communications in May 2009, after serving six years as Special Counsel to Board Member Bill Gradison. Prior to joining the PCAOB in May 2003, Ms. Sjoquist was a partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, where she chaired the firm's Business Practice group. Ms. Sjoquist has been a securities practitioner for more than 25 years and has focused her practice on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, representation of public companies reporting to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, crisis management and corporate governance. In addition to her private practice experience, Ms. Sjoquist spent four years in the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC.
Ms. Sjoquist has a Juris Doctor degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and is active in the American Bar Association's Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and the Securities Subcommittee of the Small Business Committee.