A divided Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may be in the agency’s future, at least temporarily, as vice chairwoman Jenny Yang slides into the chair seat vacated in September by Jacqueline Berrien. She is the agency’s first Asian-American chair, and has a term that expires July 1, 2017. With Berrien’s departure, the EEOC is left with four members: Democratic appointees Yang and Chai Feldblum and Republican members Constance Barker and Victoria Lipnic.
As vice chairwoman, Yang led a comprehensive review of the EEOC’s approach to systemic discrimination, which deals with issues of alleged discrimination that have broad impact on an industry, profession, company or geographic area. She also represented the agency on the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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