Fay, James

James is a Senior Enforcement Attorney in the Boston Regional Office. He received a BA and an MA in history from Providence College, and a JD from Boston College Law School. He worked for several years as an attorney in the private sector, becoming a partner at the Boston law firm of Morrison, Mahoney. He commenced his service at the SEC in 1998 as an enforcement attorney in Washington. He spent seven years in the Enforcement Division in Washington, where he worked on a number of securities fraud investigations, before transerring to Boston. James favors utilizing a constructive approach when dealing with management, but believes that the union offers employees a stronger voice within the agency than any single employee could ever have on his or her own. He lives minutes from Narragansett Bay near Providence with his wife and their three sons, aged 2, 4 and 6. He and his wife are active in their parish and in his children’s school. Although he is an avid golfer and custom golf clubmaker most of his time these days goes to renovating his family’s home.