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Jeanette Quick

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Jeanette Quick
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions
In office
December 2023 – January 2025
PresidentJoe Biden
Personal details
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)

Jeanette Quick is an American attorney and former government official who served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions in the Biden Administration and deputy commissioner of investor protection at the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation for California Governor Gavin Newsom.[1][2] Her work at Treasury focused on studying opportunities and risks presented by artificial intelligence within the financial sector.[3]

Quick was valedictorian of Simi Valley High School. [4]

Quick earned her undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.[5] She is also an author of theater reviews and a poet.[6][7][8]

Career

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Quick began her legal career at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where she served in the New York and DC offices. In 2011, she moved to the legislative branch to work for Chairman Tim Johnson and then Chairman Sherrod Brown of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.[9]

In 2017, Quick left public service to work for Scratch and then as head of legal, public policy, and compliance at the US payments company Gusto.[10] In 2020, she ran for public office to serve on the board of trustees for the City College of San Francisco, but did not win.[11][12][13]

In 2022, Governor Newsom appointed Quick as deputy commissioner of investor protection at the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. In that role, she led the organization's cryptocurrency unit and special projects focused on protecting consumers.[14]

In December 2023, Quick joined the Department of Treasury as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions.[15] She oversaw the Office of Financial Institutions Policy and the Federal Insurance Office.[16] Quick led work focused on AI in financial services, focused on assessing risks and opportunities associated with the technology.[17][18]

References

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  1. ^ "POLITICO Pro: Treasury hires top California financial official". subscriber.politicopro.com. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  2. ^ "Jeanette Quick". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  3. ^ "GMF Announces: 2025 Marshall Memorial Fellowship Cohort | German Marshall Fund of the United States". www.gmfus.org. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  4. ^ "There's No Place Like Home". Los Angeles Times. 1999. Retrieved 2025-05-07. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 17 (help)o
  5. ^ "Georgetown Law Magazine FALL/WINTER 2019" (PDF). Georgetown Law Center. 2019. Retrieved 2025-05-02.o
  6. ^ "Letter to My Sister – Jeanette Le Quick". Sweet Tree Review. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  7. ^ "Jeanette Quick – Theatrius". theatrius.com. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  8. ^ "Jeanette Quick | Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City". www.khncenterforthearts.org. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  9. ^ "LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS 2011–2012" (PDF). COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
  10. ^ Quick, jeannette (2022-02-03). "Testimony of Jeanette Quick Head of Compliance and Public Policy, Gusto Presented to the Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion Committee on Financial Services United States House of Representatives" (PDF). Committee on Financial Services United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 2025-05-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Mojadad, Ida (2020-10-28). "Strong leadership needed as City College faces multiple crises". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  12. ^ "Throwback Thursday". Creston News. 2023-07-27. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  13. ^ "Jeanette Quick". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  14. ^ Foundation, Obama. "Jeanette Quick". Obama Foundation. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  15. ^ Guida, Victoria (2023-12-13). "A soft landing, for now". POLITICO. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  16. ^ "Remarks by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy Jeanette Quick at the 2024 AAPISTRONG Annual Conference". U.S. Department of the Treasury. 2025-02-08. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  17. ^ "Request for Information on Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Services Sector". Federal Register. 2024-06-12. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  18. ^ Quick, Jeanette (2025-02-08). "Exploring Title Insurance, Consumer Protection, and Opportunities for Potential Reforms". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2025-05-03.