She succeeds Stephen Cohen, who departed the agency in June, SEC said Friday.
Hodgman started working in the enforcement division in 2008 as a staff attorney before she joined the market abuse unit in 2010.
âMelissa has supervised and investigated a broad range of noteworthy and first-of-their-kind cases across the spectrum of the securities industry and involving misconduct located around the world,â said Andrew Ceresney, director of SECâs enforcement division.
She has led the division’s cross-border working group and served as the enforcement representative on the Chairâs Attorney Honors Program.
Hodgman is also a member of the enforcement divisionâs hiring committee at its Washington D.C. headquarters.
She was an associate at law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy before she moved to the commission.