EEOC Nominee’s Litigation Record Focus of Senate Hearing (1)

President Joe Biden’s pick to fill a soon-to-be vacant seat on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told lawmakers her experience as a civil rights litigator would be central to her work on the commission.

Kalpana Kotagal, currently a civil rights attorney at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, said in testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday that her approach to the role would be informed by her experience as a litigator. In particular, she pointed to her experience representing workers in cases of pregnancy discrimination, disability discrimination, pay discrimination, and discrimination on the basis ...