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SubscribeMichael Stevenson
Board Counsel to Board Member George R. Botic
Board Staff
Michael Stevenson is Board Counsel to Board Member George R. Botic and advises him on all matters that come before the Board.
Mr. Stevenson served as Acting Chief of Staff of the PCAOB from July 2025 to February 2026. Previously, he had worked in the PCAOB’s Office of the General Counsel from 2003 to 2018, including as Deputy General Counsel for 11 years, and returned to the PCAOB in 2023 to join the Division of Registration and Inspections, where he has served as DRI’s Chief Counsel. He has also practiced at a large law firm, as a litigator for a nonprofit civil rights organization, in both the Division of Enforcement and the Office of the General Counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and as a partner in a law firm representing whistleblowers in the whistleblower programs of the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He began his career as a law clerk for Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.