The Securities and Exchange (SEC) recently appointed Dean Metry
to serve as the agency’s chief administrative law judge. Judge Metry will lead
the SEC’s Office of Administrative Law Judges, which conducts hearings and
issues initial decisions in administrative proceedings before the agency.
Judge Metry succeeds James Grimes, who served for eight
years with the agency, according to an SEC press release.
Judge Metry has been a federal Administrative Law Judge for
over 22 years, most recently as Associate Chief Judge of the Office of Medicare
Hearings and Appeals for the United States Department of Health and Human
Services, a position he held since August 2020. Prior to that, Judge Metry
served as an Administrative Law Judge for the Department of Homeland Security
and the Social Security Administration.
He began his career with the Navy Judge Advocate General
(JAG) Corps., where he served from 1980-1984 as trial counsel and summary
courts martial officer for various commands including Naval Air Station Corpus
Christi, Naval Station Seattle, and the USS Cape Cod, the release states.
Judge Metry graduated cum laude with honors in 1977 from
Central Michigan University, and he graduated with honors from Wayne State
University Law School in 1979.