Donald Bryan is the former Acting Commissioner of Banking and Insurance in New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. A career employee of his department, served as Director of the Division of Insurance from 1999 to 2006, where he served two separate stints as acting commissioner.

Commissioner Bryan first served as acting commissioner from October 2001 to February 2002, under former Governors Donald DiFrancesco

Donald DiFrancesco

Donald Thomas DiFrancesco was the 51st Governor of New Jersey from 2001 to 2002 by virtue of his status as President of the New Jersey Senate, the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature....

 and James McGreevey. He was reappointed acting commissioner in 2004 by former Gov. Richard Codey

Richard Codey

Richard James Codey is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New Jersey from November 2004 to January 2006. He has served in the New Jersey Senate since 1981 and served as the President of the Senate from 2002 to January 2010. He represents the 27th Legislative...

 and served for the entire Codey Administration.

Gov. Jon Corzine

Jon Corzine

Jon Stevens Corzine is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and of MF Global, and a one time American politician, who served as the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year U.S. Senate term representing New Jersey before being elected Governor...

 announced that he was retaining Commissioner Bryan for the first few weeks of his term, while he searched for a new commissioner. In February 2006, Governor Corzine nominated Steven M. Goldman

Steven M. Goldman

Steven M. Goldman served as the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance of New Jersey from 2006-2009. He was nominated to the position in February 2006 by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine. Goldman is an attorney who specialized in banking and insurance law, prior to his appointment as...

 as commissioner, replacing Bryan.

Commissioner Bryan is a graduate of the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

 and Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

School of Law.