On March 19, 2018, the White House announced that President Trump has nominated plaintiff’s attorney Sharon Fast Gustafson to serve a four-year term as the General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a position that has been vacant since the resignation of former General Counsel David Lopez in December 2016.
A solo practitioner in the Washington, DC suburbs, Ms. Gustafson has represented both employers and employees in employment-related matters for 26 years. She perhaps is best known for representing plaintiff Peggy Young in her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against UPS, a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and which produced a new legal standard for evaluating failure-to-accommodate pregnancy discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII).
Ms. Gustafson’s nomination requires confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Should she be confirmed, she will serve a four-year term. The Senate has not yet announced its plans for taking up the nomination.
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