Dorothy D. DeWitt

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Dorothy D. DeWitt is a Washington, DC-based American lawyer, financial executive, portfolio manager, former regulator and entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Tölt Strategies, a company providing independent monitor, third-party compliance consulting, and board advisory services for innovative industries.
== Background ==
DeWitt grew up on a farm in Texas before pursuing her education and career in law and finance.
DeWitt has had a diverse career spanning law, finance, and regulatory roles. Prior to founding Tölt Strategies, she served as the director of the Division of Market Oversight at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), becoming the first woman appointed to this role since the agency's founding in 1974.
At the CFTC, DeWitt was responsible for overseeing approximately $400 trillion (notional) in commodity derivative markets, including crypto, interest rates, forex, energy, metals, and agriculture. She led the team that proposed and finalized the CFTC's Dodd-Frank rulemaking and supported the President's Working Group on Financial Markets under two administrations.
Before her role at the CFTC, DeWitt served as general counsel for business lines and markets at Coinbase. She has also held senior legal and compliance roles at Citadel Securities, S&P Global, and Davis Polk & Wardwell.
DeWitt was counsel and chief operating office for legal and compliance for Citadel Securities, while being seconded from the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She had also worked for Davis Polk earlier in her career.
She also served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives for legal and compliance for S&P Global. Also, she served as a reentry fellow for JPMorgan Asset Management.
DeWitt spent nearly a decade as a portfolio manager of alternative investment funds, including roles at Cadogan Management and GAM in London. She served as a partner and portfolio manager at Cadogan Management, where she co-led the investment group. At GAM in London, she managed the GAM Multi-Arbitrage Fund, focusing on arbitrage, credit, event-driven, and fixed income investments. Also, she was a research analyst for ING Furman Selz for an event driven hedge fund.
=== Legal and Regulatory Roles ===
After law school, DeWitt clerked for the Honorable John E. Sprizzo in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1994 to 1995.
In 2019, DeWitt was appointed as the director of the Division of Market Oversight at the CFTC. In this role, she was responsible for the licensing, regulation, and examination of derivatives trading platforms and exchanges. 
DeWitt also served as chief finance counsel to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, where she played a key role in developing the Lummis-Gillibrand crypto legislation.
== Education ==
DeWitt holds a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Harvard Law School, where she graduated cum laude in 1994. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991.
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