Veronica Spicer is a Deputy Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She joined the CFPB in June 2011 and helped start the Office of Enforcement. Ms. Spicer later joined the Bureau’s Supervision Division, where she oversees the examinations of financial institutions engaged in mortgage and student lending, as well as the collection of consumer debt. She has also served as an advisor to the Bureau’s General Counsel and is the current chair of the Bureau’s Pro Bono Committee.
Prior to her CFPB work, Ms. Spicer was the predatory lending unit supervisor for the Illinois Attorney General’s Consumer Fraud Bureau and a senior trial attorney at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She taught appellate advocacy at Loyola University Chicago as an adjunct faculty member for many years and started her career in private practice at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Spicer clerked for Judge Terence T. Evans on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Kathryn Vratil in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.