The District of Columbia has named a new regulator to oversee insurance.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed Karima Woods to be the acting commissioner of the D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking.
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Woods succeeds Stephen Taylor.
Woods has been director of business development and strategy in the D.C. Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development since 2015.
Woods has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in business from George Washington University.