Fannie Names Counsel, Compliance Chief

Beth Wilkinson has been named executive vice president and general counsel of Fannie Mae, and Bill Senhauser has been named senior vice president and chief compliance officer, according to the government-sponsored enterprise.Ms. Wilkinson joins Fannie Mae from Latham & Watkins LLP, where she is a partner. She was previously special attorney to the U.S. attorney general, serving as a prosecutor in the U.S. v. McVeigh and Nichols cases, Fannie Mae said. She has also served as the principal deputy in the Terrorism & Violent Crime Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division. Mr. Senhauser, whose appointment followed a nationwide search, will lead the GSE's Office of Compliance, Ethics and Investigations. He was previously vice president of Fannie Mae's Regulatory Agreements and Restatement Team. Mr. Senhauser joined Fannie Mae in 1999 as vice president and deputy general counsel. Before that, he was executive director of the Equal Justice Foundation and senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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