Karla Gilbride, President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as the EEOC’s top lawyer, is expected to carry out an aggressive litigation program that would help cement the administration’s progressive agenda.
The senior attorney at the nonprofit advocacy group Public Justice likely would join a newly formed Democratic majority on the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. If confirmed, Gilbride would be the final piece needed for the workplace antidiscrimination enforcement agency to execute progressive policy measures that have been under consideration for more than a year.
“The most tangible ways that employers are involved with the EEOC is when the EEOC files a lawsuit,” said Andrew Maunz, who previously served as the EEOC’s legal counsel during the Trump administration. “That doesn’t happen as much as it has in other years, but I think who the general counsel is will certainly play a role in that.”
The EEOC general counsel is responsible for overseeing the agency’s 15 regional attorneys, each of whom is a career official with specialized knowledge of their respective districts. The general counsel has the ability to stop or continue litigation the regional attorneys initiate, and to present certain cases to the commission for a vote.
Gilbride, who’s been at Public Justice for seven...
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