4 | EEOC-INITIATED LITIGATION: 2024 EDITION ©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP C. EEOC Profiles Charlotte A Burrows (Chair, Democrat) Charlotte Burrows has been a Commissioner at the EEOC since 2014, when she was nominated by President Obama. She has been designated by President Biden as the Chair of the Commission. On November 8, 2023, Burrows was confirmed by the Senate to serve for a third term, expiring in 2028. Prior to her appointment to the EEOC, she served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jocelyn Samuels (Vice Chair, Democrat) Jocelyn Samuels joined the EEOC as a Commissioner on October 14, 2020, and on July 14, 2021, was confirmed for a second term expiring in 2026. She has been designated by President Biden as the Commission’s Vice Chair. Immediately prior to joining the Commission, she led the Williams Institute, focusing on LGBTQ+ issues. During the Obama administration, she served in leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the U.S. Department of Justice. Kalpana Kotagal (Commissioner, Democrat) Kalpana Kotagal joined the EEOC on August 9, 2023, and her term expires in 2027. Before joining the Commission, she was in private practice, focusing on litigating worker-side civil rights issues. She is a co-author of the “Inclusion Rider”—a voluntary agreement between actors, filmmakers and studios aimed at advancing equal opportunity in the film industry both behind the camera and in front of it. Keith E Sonderling (Commissioner, Republican) Keith E. Sonderling joined the EEOC in 2020, for a term that expires in July 2024. Until January of 2021, he served as the Commission’s Vice-Chair. Before joining the EEOC, he served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor. Before joining the Department of Labor in 2017, he was a management-side labor and employment lawyer in Florida. Commissioner Sonderling speaks and writes frequently on the benefits and potential harms of using artificial intelligence-based technology in the workplace.
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