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Commissioners of the EEOC

Chairs

Years Chairs
1965-1966 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
1966-1967 Stephen N. Shulman
1967-1969 Clifford L. Alexander, Jr.
1969-1973 William H. Brown, III
1973-1974 John H. Powell, Jr.
1975-1976 Lowell W. Perry
1977-1981 Eleanor Holmes Norton
1982-1990 Clarence Thomas
1990-1993 Evan J. Kemp, Jr.
1994-1997 Gilbert F. Casellas
1998-2001 Ida L. Castro
2001-2006 Cari M. Dominguez
2006-2009 Naomi C. Earp
2010-2014 Jacqueline A. Berrien
2014-2018 Jenny R. Yang
2019-2021 Janet Dhillon
2021-Present Charlotte A. Burrows

 

Commissioners

Years Commissioners
1965-1968 Samuel C. Jackson
1965-1974 Luther Holcomb
1965- 1966 Richard Graham
1965-1966 Aileen Hernandez
1967-1971 Vincente T. Ximenes
1968-1970 Elizabeth Kuck
1970-1977 Colston A. Lewis
1971-1980 Ethel B. Walsh
1971-1976 Raymond L. Telles
1976-1981 Daniel Leach
1978-1981* J. Clay Smith, Jr.
1978-1983 Armando Rodriguez
1981-1983* Cathie Shattuck
1982-1993* Tony E. Gallegos
1982-1986 William Webb
1984-1987 Fred Alvarez
1984-1995 R. Gaull Silberman
1987-1993* Evan J. Kemp, Jr.
1987-1993 Joy Cherian
1990-1996 Joyce E. Tucker
1994-2002* Paul Igasaki
1994-2004 Paul Steven Miller
1996-2000 Reginald E. Jones
2002-2008 Leslie E. Silverman
2003-2012 Stuart J. Ishimaru
2003-2009 Naomi C. Earp
2005-2010 Christine M. Griffin
2008-2016 Constance Barker
2010-2019 Chai Feldblum
2010-2020 Victoria A. Lipnic
2012-2018 Jenny R. Yang
2015-Present Charlotte Burrows
2019-2022 Janet Dhillon
2020-Present Keith E. Sonderling
2020-Present Jocelyn Samuels
2020-Present Andrea R. Lucas
2023-Present Kalpana Kotagal

* Served as Acting Chair