NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz announced the selection of Gail Laster, an attorney who helped draft the Dodd-Frank Act, to replace the retiring Kent Buckham as director of the Office of Consumer Protection.

Buckham will retire at the end of this year; Laster will come on board with the NCUA Nov. 19.

Laster has spent the last five years as deputy chief counsel for the House Financial Services Committee. She is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University.

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