Margaret Milner Richardson (Peggy) is currently involved with Oakwood Enterprises LLC.  Previously, she worked as a partner at Ernst & Young advising large clients on domestic and global tax issues.  An attorney with an extensive background in tax and financial services issues, she served as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service from 1993 to 1997. 

As commissioner, she worked to provide taxpayers with better service and make it easier for them to obtain information, file returns and make tax payments. She actively promoted her vision of improved tax administration in speeches before the leading professional tax societies across the country, as well as before the National Press Club, the Economic Club of Detroit, the Houston Forum and the Commonwealth Club of California. She has also been profiled in a number of major national newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today.

Mrs. Richardson was named "Woman of the Year" in 1993 by the Financial Women's Association, and she is the recipient of the Federal Bar Association Section of Taxations Kenneth Liles Distinguished Service Award, the Tax Executives Institute Distinguished Service Award and the Hartford Institute 1997 Tax Award.

Mrs. Richardson graduated from Vassar College with a degree in political science and received her J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review. After law school, she clerked at the U.S. Court of Claims (now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) and then joined the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. She later became the first woman promoted to executive rank in the history of the Office of Chief Counsel. In 1977, she joined the law firm of Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan in Washington, DC. She was appointed to the Internal Revenue Service Commissioners Advisory Group, serving as a member from 1988 to 1990 and as chair in 1990.

Mrs. Richardson, a native of Waco, Texas, is married to John L. Richardson, a lawyer, and has one daughter. She is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She serves on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and on the DC Bar Committee on Multidisciplinary Practice. She is also a member of the Financial Women's Association, the Washington Women's Forum and the Council of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. She serves on the George Washington University Law School Advisory Board and the boards of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the U.S.-Russia Business Council, and Eurasia Foundation. She has served as a member of the Board of the National Cathedral School, the Development Board of the Hospital for Sick Children and the Women's Campaign Fund.