Obama to Nominate DOJ Official Burrows To Fill Vacant EEOC Seat, White House Says

President Barack Obama intends to nominate Charlotte Burrows, currently a Justice Department official, to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the White House announced Sept. 12.

Burrows has served as deputy associate attorney general since 2009 and previously worked as a top aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, the White House said.

A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, Burrows worked four years as a trial attorney for the Employment Litigation Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which handles ...