Everyone on Wall Street is buzzing about Sallie Krawcheck.
It's been over a year since Krawcheck, the former head of global wealth management at Bank of America, left the North Carolina-based bank.
Now, according to Dealbook's Ben Protess and Susanne Craig, she's seen as a potential front-runner for the top spot at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
After current SEC chairperson Mary Schapiro said she's resigning, President Obama designated Elisse Walter for the position. However, Walter has indicated she will only stay on for a short time period, Dealbook reports.
That means another successor for the top SEC post will likely be picked next year.
Those who are also seen as contenders for the post include Robert Khuzami, the SEC's enforcement director, and Richard Ketchum, the head of FINRA. Mary Miller, a top Treasury official, has removed herself from consideration, according to Dealbook.
Of course, the search for the next SEC chair is still in the beginning stages.
Krawcheck has the Wall Street experience and since leaving the Street she has written extensively about key regulatory issues including money market funds, ways to fix the banks and individual investor protections. She has also spent time advising elected officials in Washington, D.C.
That being said, let's still take a tour of Krawcheck's life and career.
Sallie Krawcheck grew up in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sallie Krawcheck was born in New Orleans, while her father Leonard Krawcheck was in law school at Tulane.
She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina.
Her father was a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
She was crowned homecoming queen in high school.
"[In middle school] I had the glasses, the braces, the corrective shoes. I was half-Jewish, half-WASPy. I couldn't have been further outcast," Krawcheck told Fortune magazine.
"There was nothing they could do to me at Salomon Brothers in the '80s that was worse than the seventh grade," she added.
OK so Krawcheck wasn't always awkward looking like she suggests.
While attending the exclusive Porter-Gaud School, she was crowned homecoming queen. She was also a cheerleader and a track star in high school.
She received the prestigious Morehead Scholarship to the University of North Carolina. She majored in journalism there.
Krawcheck received the prestigious Morehead Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She she graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communication in 1987.
She never worked as a journalist though.
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