Michael G. Oxley, former congressman and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The University of Findlay. The election took place at the Board of Trustees meeting in October.            

Oxley is a member of the Baker Hostetler law firm in Washington, D.C., where he serves clients in the areas of corporate governance, investigations and government policy. In addition, Oxley is senior adviser to the board of directors of NASDAQ OMX Group Inc.

After a 25-year career representing Ohio’s Fourth Congressional District, Oxley is best known for his co-authorship of the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which restored Americans’ confidence in the capital markets early in the decade and created a new accounting oversight board for publicly traded companies.

Prior to his election to Congress in 1981, he was a special agent of the FBI in Washington, Boston and New York, and a member of the Ohio General Assembly. Previously, he practiced law with the firm of Oxley, Malone, Fitzgerald and Hollister in his hometown of Findlay.

Oxley’s father, Garver Oxley, graduated from then-Findlay College in 1941.

The younger Oxley earned a bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a law degree from the Ohio State University. He is married to Patricia Oxley.