WETGEN, Mark

WETGEN, Mark. (Dubuque, IA-- ). A graduate of WAHLERT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL and the University of Iowa College of Law, Wetgen worked as a garbage man for the city of Dubuque the summer after he graduated from Creighton University and then attended the University of Iowa Law School that fall. During the summer after his first year of law school, he worked on Capitol Hill as a summer intern for Iowa Senator Charles Grassley. He was a bartender his second year of law school and interned for District Court Judge John Jarvey during his third year.

After graduating from the University of Iowa Law School, he worked as a summer associate for Duncan, Green, Brown and Langeness, a Des Moines law firm, as an intern for the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois for a few months and then was hired as an associate with Post Kirby Noonan & Sweat, a firm headquartered in San Diego and now known as Kirby Noonan Lance & Hodge.

He then worked as an associate for Sherman & Howard, working as bond counsel to Nevada local governments, and from September 2002 to October 2004 he was an associate with Lionel Sawyer & Collins, which claims to be the largest private law firm in Nevada. His clients included energy firms, according to the bio.

In October 2004, he took a job as United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as counsel and senior policy advisor. Among his duties was to advise Reid on financial services matters.

In May, 2011 it was announced that President Obama had nominated Wetgen to become a member of the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The commission had the power to oversee and regulate derivatives. In November, 2011 it was announced that he had been approved for his position by the United States Senate.

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Source:

Nevans-Pederson, Mary, Telegraph Herald, Local Native Didn't see 'Futures" in his Future," Nov. 9, 2011, p. 3A

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