On Tuesday, Victoria Lipnic was sworn in as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), making the five-member Commission complete for the first time in nearly two years. EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien and Commissioner Chai Feldblum were sworn in earlier this month, joining current members Stuart Ishimaru and Constance Barker. Lipnic, the Republican nominee to the EEOC, was one of 15 recess appointments President Obama made over the spring legislative recess.

Before her appointment to the EEOC, Lipnic practiced management-side labor and employment law. Prior to entering private practice, Lipnic served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards from 2002 until 2009, where she oversaw the Employment Standards Administration (ESA). Lipnic has also worked as Workforce Policy Counsel to the Republican members of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and as labor and employment in-house counsel for the U.S. Postal Service. During the Reagan administration, Lipnic served as a special assistant for business liaison to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige.