Donald Brewster joined PennyMac in December of 2008 and currently serves as Deputy General Counsel. Mr. Brewster came to PennyMac from Origen Financial, Inc. in Southfield, MI, where he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Mr. Brewster has worked in the housing finance industry exclusively over the past 35 years, including the legal departments of Freddie Mac, GMAC/RFC, and Countrywide Home Loans, where he concentrated on the regulatory aspects of consumer financial services and State and Federal Legislative and Administrative Agency relations. In addition to his consumer finance regulatory practice, Mr. Brewster's experience includes several years of private practice in Los Angeles in the fields of mortgage revenue bonds, bankruptcy, and securities.
Mr. Brewster is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Minnesota Law School, and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee (where he served as chair of the RESPA sub-committee from 1998-2002; and vice chair of the Housing Finance Committee since 2023). Mr. Brewster is a frequent lecturer to state and national trade groups and professional associations on various consumer finance industry and electronic commerce topics, and served as Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School where he taught advanced coursework on consumer finance and electronic commerce topics.