On January 18, 2014, Mark Peters was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigations. Prior to this appointment, Commissioner Peters was a partner at the law firm of Edwards Wildman, and had earlier served as Chief of the Public Integrity Unit from 2001-2004 and as Deputy Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau from 1999-2001 at the New York State Attorney General’s office under Eliot Spitzer. Commissioner Peters was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the West Side of Manhattan. He attended Horace Mann High School and received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. At Brown, Peters wrote for the daily newspaper and majored in medieval history. (read more…)