WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following 10 individuals to serve on key Administration boards and commissions.
Deirdre Hamilton for Member, National Mediation Board
Cynthia Hogan for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service Catherine McLaughlin for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service Shirley Sagawa for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service Evelyn M. Fujimoto for Member, Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences Lori Peek for Member, Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences Beth Geer for Member, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority Robert Klein for Member, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority Kimberly Lewis for Member, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority Michelle Moore for Member, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Deirdre Hamilton has worked as a staff attorney at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters since 2014, working exclusively with the IBT’s Airline Division. At the IBT she has represented most of the crafts or classes within the airline industry- including pilots, flight attendants, technicians, and aircraft cleaners- at both commercial and cargo air carriers. Before that, she was a staff attorney at the Association of Flight Attendants for twelve years. In her career, she has handled a wide range of legal matters including National Mediation Board elections and mediation, collective bargaining support, contract enforcement, and litigation of Railway Labor Act issues. She began her career as a legal fellow in the General Counsel’s office at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Since 2014, Hamilton has served as a panelist at meetings of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Committee and Railway and Airline Labor Law Committee. Hamilton also serves as a Senior Editor for the ABA Railway Labor Act Treatise, Fourth Edition.
Hamilton received her J.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000 and her B.A. from Oberlin College.
Cynthia was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1979, she graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in art history. In 1984, she received a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as Notes Editor of The Virginia Law Review. She served in 1984-85 as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward Cahn, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and worked as an associate at the Washington, DC law firm, Williams & Connolly, from 1985-1991.
In 1991, Hogan joined the staff of United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, serving as counsel, staff director, and then chief counsel until 1996. From 2009 to 2013, Cynthia served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Counsel to the Vice President of the United States of America. In 2014, Hogan joined the National Football League as Senior Vice President of Public Policy. In 2016, she joined Apple as Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Americas. She resigned from Apple in 2020. In April 2020, then candidate Joe Biden asked Hogan to serve on a committee he formed to assist in the selection of a Vice Presidential candidate. Hogan is married and has two children.
Catherine McLaughlin serves as the founding Executive Director of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. The Institute, established in 2017, brings students together with accomplished, respected practitioners from a broad diversity of backgrounds and a wide range of policy fields in order to equip aspiring public servants to elevate civil discourse and take on pressing policy challenges facing our nation.