• The U.S. Senate confirmed Brittany Bull Panuccio as EEOC commissioner, giving Republicans a majority and the ability to realign the agency’s enforcement and policy priorities.
• The new Commission is expected to shift focus by scrutinizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, religious liberty, and discrimination, narrowing disparate impact enforcement, revisiting LGBTQ+ guidance, and scaling back algorithmic bias initiatives.
• Employers may want to prepare for increased attention to claims of majority and religious discrimination, review DEI and accommodation policies, and monitor for changes in federal guidance and enforcement.

The confirmation of Panuccio to the EEOC for a term ending in 2029 establishes a Republican majority that is expected to steer the Commission’s direction for the next several years. Commissioner Panuccio’s background includes service as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Appellate Division, clerkships on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and D.C. Circuits, prior work at the U.S. Department of Education involving Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 guidance, and an undergraduate and law degree from Northwestern University.

With this confirmation, the Commission’s current composition includes Acting Chair Andrea Lucas, whose second term was confirmed in August and runs to 2030, and Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal, now the sole remaining Democrat following the January 2025 dismissal of former...

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