WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced the appointment of two individuals to key Senior Executive Service (SES) managerial positions at the agency. Raymond Peeler and Sharyn Tejani have been selected by Chair Charlotte A. Burrows to serve as Associate Legal Counsels in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at EEOC headquarters. Associate Legal Counsels, as deputies to the Legal Counsel, manage areas of practice within OLC and serve as a bridge between career OLC attorneys and agency leadership.
“I am delighted to recognize Ray’s excellent work in the Office of Legal Counsel and welcome Sharyn as she returns to the EEOC,” said Chair Charlotte A. Burrows. “The agency will greatly benefit from their legal acumen and tremendous experience with employment discrimination issues.”
Peeler, a long time EEOC attorney, began his new position on Feb. 28 and focuses on age discrimination policy and EEOC internal advice and governance. Immediately before his SES appointment, Peeler was the Assistant Legal Counsel for Coordination and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), where he was responsible for working with other federal agencies and developing policies to combat age discrimination in employment. Prior to that, he worked as a special assistant to former Acting EEOC Chair Victoria A. Lipnic and former EEOC Chair Jenny R. Yang.
Peeler is a past government fellow to the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section (EEO...
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