President Donald Trump has tapped labor and employment attorney M. Carter Crow to serve as the next general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for a four-year term. This nomination comes at a crucial time for the EEOC, which has recently regained a quorum of commissioners, and appears focused on systemic and pattern-or-practice litigation that further the administration’s enforcement priorities.

Quick Hits

• President Trump has nominated labor and employment M. Carter Crow as the new general counsel of the EEOC, a position that has been vacant since January 2025.
• Crow’s Senate confirmation process will likely take several weeks to months, but if confirmed, Crow would be positioned to carry out the Trump administration’s discrimination and harassment enforcement priorities.
• The nomination comes weeks after the U.S. Senate confirmed another commissioner, restoring the EEOC’s quorum and enabling it to engage in rulemaking and emphasize systemic enforcement strategies.

On November 18, 2025, President Trump nominated Crow, currently the head of the global employment and labor practice at a multinational law firm, to the U.S. Senate for confirmation as the EEOC general counsel. The nomination was received by the Senate and referred to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), according to the Senate website.

The EEOC general counsel position has been open since January 2025, when President Trump discharged former...

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