FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                              2001-58



          MARGARET HENRY APPOINTED ATTORNEY-FELLOW
              IN OFFICE OF MUNICIPAL SECURITIES
                              
                              

      Washington, DC, June 1, 2001 -- The Securities and
Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation today
announced the selection of Margaret C. (Peg) Henry as an
attorney-fellow in the Office of Municipal Securities for a
two-year term beginning June 4, 2001. Ms. Henry's broad
experience in municipal securities--in the private practice
of law, federal and local government, and investment banking
-- will be an asset to the Commission.  Previously, she
headed the public finance group of the international law
firm of Torys.  Among other positions, she has also been a
partner in Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, an
Attorney-Advisor to the U.S. Department of Treasury, Tax
Counsel to the Majority Tax Staff of the Committee on Ways
and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives, a Managing
Director in the Public Finance Department of Salomon Smith
Barney, and Tax Counsel to the Office of Management and
Budget of The City of New York.

      Martha Mahan Haines, Chief of the Office of Municipal
Securities, said, "Peg's extensive experience in a number of
capacities with a wide variety of public finance
transactions will be a tremendous asset to the Commission as
we work with the municipal finance community and provide
municipal market expertise to other offices and divisions
within the Commission."

      Ms. Henry joins Stephen Weinstein, who also is serving
as an attorney-fellow in the Division of Market Regulation's
Office of Municipal Securities.
                              
                              
                              
                              
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