The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the appointment of Gretchen Lowe as principal deputy director and chief counsel in the CFTC’s Division of Enforcement.

Lowe was acting director of the division until the recent appointment of Aitan Goelman as director. Before her appointment as acting director, Lowe was the chief counsel of the division.

During most of her tenure at the commission, Lowe served as an associate director. She led investigations and prosecutions of many of the CFTC’s most complex cases, including recent actions against banks and interdealer brokers for manipulation and false reporting of global benchmark interest rates, such as LIBOR, actions against energy companies for attempted manipulation and false reporting of natural gas price indices, and other manipulation, trade practice and internal controls cases.

Lowe also served the division as counselor to the director advising on programmatic legal and policy issues and was a senior trial attorney specializing in manipulation and trade practice.

Lowe received her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.