President Trump Renominates Andrea R. Lucas to EEOC

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that President Donald J. Trump has renominated Acting Chair Andrea R. Lucas to another five-year term at the EEOC. Lucas has served as a member of the EEOC since 2020, having been nominated by President Trump during his first term.

“I am honored to be nominated by President Trump to serve a second term at the EEOC, our nation’s premier civil rights agency enforcing federal employment antidiscrimination laws,” Lucas said. “I appreciate the opportunity, if confirmed, to further our work of restoring evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws for all Americans. Part of that work is simply clarifying longstanding civil rights rules that have been obscured by unequal enforcement in recent years.”

In the first sixty days of Acting Chair Lucas’s leadership, the EEOC already has made significant progress towards this goal, including by: combating DEI-related discrimination in our nation’s elite law firms; developing resources to help workers and employers understand DEI-related discrimination with the Justice Department (DOJ); promising to hold universities accountable for antisemitism on campus workplaces; focusing the EEOC on protecting American workers from anti-American bias; and restoring the EEOC’s role of protecting women in the workplace by removing gender ideology.

Before her appointment to the EEOC, Lucas practiced labor and employment law for an international law firm in Washington, D.C. Earlier in her career, she clerked on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. More information about Lucas is available at https://www.eeoc.gov/andrea-r-lucas-acting-chair.

The EEOC is the sole federal agency authorized to investigate and litigate against private companies and other private employers for violations of federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. For public employers, the EEOC shares jurisdiction with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division; the EEOC is responsible for investigating public sector charges before referring them to DOJ for potential litigation. The EEOC also is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s employment antidiscrimination effort. More information is available at www.eeoc.gov. Stay connected with the latest EEOC news by subscribing to our email updates.

Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC.gov)