SEC Chairman Schapiro has landed at #56 on Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women” list. She falls between #55 Sonia Sotomayor and #57 Kathleen Sebelius (Secretary of Health & Human Services). Forbes notes that Schapiro, the first woman and 29th chairman of the SEC as of January 2009, “has been working to restore public confidence in the SEC by increasing market transparency and fighting insider trading and rampant Ponzi schemes.”
