FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2001-83


    Rosalind Ramsey Tyson Named Acting Regional Director
            of the SEC's Pacific Regional Office

     Washington, D.C., August 10, 2001-Securities and
Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey L. Pitt today named
Rosalind R. Tyson Acting Regional Director of the Pacific
Regional Office.  The Regional Director's position became
vacant upon the departure of Valerie Caproni, who has
returned to the private sector.

     Ms. Tyson currently serves as Associate Regional
Director for Regulation in the Pacific Regional Office, a
position she has held since 1993.  Ms. Tyson joined the
Pacific Regional Office as an enforcement attorney in 1982
following several years in private practice.  She has held a
number of positions of increasing responsibility within the
Regional Office since that time.

     Ms. Tyson was the initial recipient of the Commission's
Career Award for Examination Excellence in 2000 that
recognized a senior member of the SEC's regulatory staff for
outstanding contributions to the advancement of the
Commission's inspection program.  She graduated from
Georgetown University's School of Languages and Linguistics
in 1970, received her Master's degree in 1972 from the
University of Hawaii and her J.D. from Stanford Law School
in 1978.