Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission are appointed by the President of the United States:

Under Franklin D. Roosevelt:

• Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - 1934-35 (Chair: 1934-35)
• George C. Mathews - 1934-40
• James M. Landis - 1934-37 (Chair: 1935-37)
• Robert E. Healy - 1934-46
• Ferdinand Pecora - 1934-35
• J.D. Ross - 1935-37
• William O. Douglas - 1936-39 (Chair: 1937-39)
• Jerome N. Frank - 1937-41 (Chair: 1939-41)
• John W. Hanes - 1938
• Edward C. Eicher - 1938-42 (Chair: 1941-42)
• Leon Henderson - 1939-41
• Sumner T. Pike - 1940-46
• Ganson Purcell - 1941-46 (Chair: 1942-46)
• Edmund Burke, Jr. - 1941-43
• Robert H. O'Brien - 1942-44
• Robert K. McConnaughey - 1943-49
• James J. Caffrey - 1945-47 (Chair: 1946-47)

Under Harry S. Truman:

• Richard B. McEntire - 1946-53
• Edmond M. Hanrahan - 1946-49 (Chair: 1948-49)
• Harry A. McDonald - 1947-52 (Chair: 1949-52)
• Paul R. Rowen - 1948-55
• Donald C. Cook - 1949-53 (Chair: 1952-53)
• Edward T. McCormick - 1949-51
• Robert I. Millonzi - 1951-52
• Clarence H. Adams - 1952-56
• J. Howard Rossbach - 1952-53

Under Dwight D. Eisenhower:

• Ralph H. Demmler - 1953-55 (Chair: 1953-55)
• J. Sinclair Armstrong - 1953-57 (Chair: 1955-57)
• A.J. Goodwin, Jr. - 1953-55
• Andrew Downey Orrick - 1955-60
• Harold C. Patterson - 1955-60
• Earl F. Hastings - 1956-61
• James C. Sargent - 1956-60
• Edward N. Gadsby - 1957-61 (Chair: 1957-61)
• Byron D. Woodside - 1960-67
• Daniel J. McCauley - 1960-61

Under John F. Kennedy:

• J. Allen Frear, Jr. - 1961-63
• William L. Cary - 1961-64 (Chair: 1961-64)
• Manuel F. Cohen - 1961-69 (Chair: 1964-69)
• Jack M. Whitney II - 1961-64

Under Lyndon B. Johnson:

• Hugh F. Owens - 1964-73
• Hamer H. Budge - 1964-71 (Chair: 1969-71)
• Francis M. Wheat - 1964-69
• Richard B. Smith - 1967-71

Under Richard Nixon:

• James J. Needham - 1969-72
• Albert Sydney Herlong - 1969-73
• William J. Casey - 1971-73 (Chair: 1971-73)
• Philip A. Loomis, Jr. - 1971-82
• John R. Evans - 1973-83
• G. Bradford Cook - 1973 (Chair: 1973)
• Ray Garrett, Jr. - 1973-75 (Chair: 1973-75)
• A.A. Sommer, Jr. - 1973-76
• Irving M. Pollack - 1974-80

Under Gerald Ford:

• Roderick M. Hills - 1975-77 (Chair: 1975-77)

Under Jimmy Carter:

• Harold M. Williams - 1977-81 (Chair: 1977-81)
• Roberta S. Karmel - 1977-80
• Stephen J. Friedman - 1980-81
• Barbara S. Thomas - 1980-83

Under Ronald Reagan:

• John S.R. Shad - 1981-87 (Chair: 1981-87)
• Bevis Longstreth - 1981-84
• James C. Treadway, Jr. - 1982-85
• Charles C. Cox - 1983-89
• Charles L. Marinaccio - 1984-85
• Aulana L. Peters - 1984-88
• Joseph A. Grundfest - 1985-90
• Edward H. Fleischman - 1986-92
• David S. Ruder - 1987-89 (Chair: 1987-89)
• Mary L. Schapiro - 1988-94

Under George H. W. Bush:

• Richard C. Breeden - 1989-93 (Chair: 1989-93)
• Philip R. Lochner, Jr. - 1990-91
• Richard Y. Roberts - 1990-95
• J. Carter Beese, Jr. - 1992-94

Under Bill Clinton:

• Arthur Levitt, Jr. - 1993-2001 (Chair: 1993-2001)
• Steven Wallman - 1994-97
• Norman S. Johnson - 1996-2000
• Isaac C. Hunt, Jr. - 1996-2002
• Paul R. Carey - 1997-2001
• Laura Unger - 1997-2002

Under George W. Bush:

• Harvey Pitt - 2001-03 (Chair: 2001-03)
• Cynthia Glassman - 2002-present
• Paul Atkins - 2002-present
• Roel Campos - 2002-present
• Harvey Goldschmid - 2002-present
• William Donaldson - 2003-present (Chair: 2003-present)