Honors and Awards: On March 9, 2007, the Metroplitan Washington Employment Lawyers' Association honored me as Attorney of the Year., Attorney of the Year, Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers' Ass'n, 2007

Bar/Professional Activity: In August 2008 and August 2009, I was elected as Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law.  I am the first plaintiff's attorney to become an officer of the Section., 2008, I was an elected member of the Council of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law from 1998 through 2006, and the elected Liaison for ABA Governance from 2006 through 2008., 1998

Pro bono/Community Service: I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law., 2005, From January 1977 to February 2001, I was the Director of the Government Employment Project, and subsequently Director of the Employment Discrimination Project, of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law., 1977

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: From 1996 through 2007, I co-authored fifteen editions of Equal Employment Law Update, published by the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law through the Buraue of National Affairs, Inc., Co-Author, Equal Employment Law Update, Bureau of National Affairs, 1996

Verdicts and Settlements: My cases include Sines v. Service Corp. Int’l (S.D. N.Y.) ($4.45 million recovered in class and collective action for overtime violations under the FLSA and New York Labor Law); Pegues v. Mississippi State Employment Service (N.D. Miss.) (first findings of classwide racial discrimination by any State Employment Service in the country against applicants seeking referrals to employers with jobs, first such findings of classwide sexual discrimination; $5.8 million litigated award to more than 700 claimants); Sledge v. J.P. Stevens & Co. (E.D. N.C.) ($20 million settlement for 2,900 back pay claimants harmed by racial discrimination in hiring and job assignments at the company’s facilities in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina); Bogan v. Fleetwood Enterprises (D. Idaho) (settlement of nationwide sex discrimination and sexual harassment class action for prospective relief); Brewer v. Miller Brewing Co. (N.D. N.Y.) ($2.7 million in compensatory damages to 97 black former employees harmed by co-worker racial harassment); Dowdell v. Ona Corp. (N.D. Ala.) ($2.5 million settlement for 142 former black employees harmed by co-worker racial harassment); Edwards v. City of Houston (S.D. Tex.) (consent decree, and defense of consent decree, providing 106 remedial promotions to African-American and Hispanic police officers harmed by discriminatory promotional tests and related litigation) (five Fifth Circuit arguments, one of them en banc); Lewis v. Bloomsburg Mills, 773 F.2d 561 (4th Cir. 1985) (reversal of findings of nondiscrimination); and Luevano v. Campbell (D.D.C.) (knocked out Federal government’s nationwide hiring test for 118 professional, technical, and administrative occupational series), and many others.

Educational Background: Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, B.A. in English and German Literature., 1965