Career Brief
Mr. Mirel has served as commissioner since July of 1999. His agency enforces all laws of the District of Columbia relating to the businesses of insurance, securities, and banking. During his tenure, the District has made a bid to become a major national and international center for insurance and other kinds of financial services.

The department has become completely computerized and now handles virtually all information electronically. It won the NAIC’s State Regulation 2000 Award for participating in all of the NAIC’s automated information systems. Commissioner Mirel plays an active role in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, co-chairing two working groups.

Previously, Mr. Mirel founded and was the executive director and general counsel of the District of Columbia Insurance Federation; practiced law privately; and worked with the Peace Corps and the Department of Labor, and on Capitol Hill on both House and Senate sides. He has also been an adjunct professor of law at George Washington University Law School and at American University School of Law. Mr. Mirel is a native of Connecticut and is a member of the Bars of the State of Connecticut and the District of Columbia. He is admitted to practice before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the US Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Law School.