On November 13, 2026, the White House announced four nominations to fill vacant seats at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, marking the first such appointments in roughly a year.
For the CFTC, the administration named Nathan Anonick of Virginia and Matthew Rowland of the District of Columbia. For the SEC, it nominated Kristin N. Johnson of Michigan and Steven Levine of Maryland. The slate is bipartisan: Anonick and Levine are Republicans, while Johnson and Rowland are Democrats.
The nominees bring extensive regulatory and legislative backgrounds. Anonick is legislative counsel to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman and was a lead negotiator on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Rowland is a CFTC attorney detailed to the Senate Agriculture Committee who worked on the Clarity Act and the 2024 Agriculture Committee crypto bill. Johnson is a former CFTC commissioner focused on digital assets, risk management, market integrity, crypto custody, DeFi, and AI. Levine recently served as General Counsel and senior advisor at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and previously worked at the SEC as counsel and deputy chief of staff to Commissioner Mark Uyeda.
Levine was nominated to succeed Hester Peirce, a longtime crypto advocate who led the SEC's Crypto Task Force and assisted Chairman Paul Atkins' Project Crypto. Ji Kim, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, congratulated the nominees, saying strong bipartisan representation is essential to developing durable rules that safeguard markets, protect consumers, and support innovation. Senate committees will consider the nominations: Agriculture for the CFTC and Banking for the SEC.
