43rd Annual Federal Sector Labor Relations & Labor Law Conference

Steven M. Bierig Related Seminars and Products

Attorney-Arbitrator-Mediator

Steven M. Bierig is engaged in the full-time practice of arbitration and mediation specializing in labor and employment disputes on a national basis. He has received both Ad Hoc appointments as well as being a member of numerous arbitration panels. Those panels have included the USPS and its constituent Unions, the City of Chicago and its constituent Unions, the Chicago Board of Education and Chicago Teachers Union, the State of Illinois and AFSCME, the National Elevator Bargaining Association, the FAA and NATCA, the AFA and IBT and United Airlines. Mr. Bierig has served as a contract mediator for the EEOC and is the mediator of medical disputes between the City of Chicago and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7. In 2016 and 2019, Mr. Bierig served as the Fact-Finder for the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union. Mr. Bierig is a referee for the National Mediation Board and is affiliated with FMCS, AAA and the Illinois Department of Labor. He serves on the roster of arbitrators for the Illinois Labor and Educational Relations Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Mr. Bierig has served as an Adjunct Professor at IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law, He currently serves as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and is an Adjunct Professor at the UIC School of Law. He has written numerous articles on labor and employment issues and lectures frequently on the topic.

Mr. Bierig received his J.D. with high honors from IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law. Prior to becoming a full time neutral, Mr. Bierig was engaged in the practice of labor law on the management side as a Senior Attorney Supervisor at the City of Chicago Law Department and was an attorney in the Labor and Employment Department at the Chicago Office of Katten Muchin & Zavis.

June Calhoun Related Seminars and Products

Supervisory Administrative Judge

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

June Wallace Calhoun has worked for the U.S. Equal Employment  Opportunity Commission in the Chicago District Office for more than 30 years.   Judge Calhoun spent the majority of her tenure with the Commission as a Senior Trial Attorney prosecuting employment discrimination cases for 23 years.  Beginning in 2015, she accepted the challenge of joining the ranks of elite Administrative Judges in the  Commission’s Federal Hearings Unit.  In November 2021, she was promoted to Supervisory Administrative Judge.  Judge Calhoun received her Bachelors of Science Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and her Juris Doctorate of Law Degree from the University of  Wisconsin School of Law, Madison, Wisconsin.  Judge Calhoun also worked as an Associate at Chapman and Cutler for three years prior to joining the Commission.  She has two awesome sons, one of whom is a Special Olympics athlete and two adorable grandchildren who are affectionately known as her "Glitter Bunnies!"  

Margaret Donaghy Related Seminars and Products

AALJ

Social Security Administration

Felicia Frazier Related Seminars and Products

Partner

Odelson, Sterk, Murphey, Frazier & McGrath, Ltd.

Dan Kaspar Related Seminars and Products

Deputy Director, Field Operations & Organizing

National Treasury Employees Union

Dan Kaspar – Dan is Director of Field Operations & Organizing for the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents more than 150,000 federal employees nationwide in 34 federal agencies. He is based out of Washington, D.C. and oversees NTEU’s eight field offices, its Organizing Department and its Learning & Development Department. Prior to his current position, Dan was Deputy Director of Field Operations & Organizing and a former Assistant Counsel in NTEU’s Chicago Field Office, where he practiced before arbitrators, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and others. Dan has also held several leadership positions in the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law, including Union Co-Chair of the Federal Sector Labor and Employment Law Committee.

Dan is a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds a M.S. in Human Resources and Employment Relations and a M.B.A. in Economics from Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. in Business Administration from Illinois State University.

Katrina Kelley Related Seminars and Products

LCPC, CST, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

Modern Insight Therapy

Colleen Duffy Kiko Related Seminars and Products

Chairman

Federal Labor Relations Authority

President Donald J. Trump designated Colleen Duffy Kiko as Chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) on February 11, 2025.   Chairman Kiko has served as Member of the FLRA since December 2017 and previously served as FLRA Chairman from December 2017 until January 2021.

Chairman Kiko has a long history with the FLRA. She worked in its predecessor agency, the Labor Management Services Administration of the Department of Labor (DOL).  When the FLRA opened its doors on January 1, 1979, Chairman Kiko worked in the Washington Regional Office investigating unfair labor practices. She ultimately moved into positions within the headquarters of the FLRA.  From 2005 to 2008 she served as FLRA General Counsel, having been nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Prior to her first FLRA chairmanship, Chairman Kiko served as one of the three permanent Judges of the DOL’s Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB), a position to which she was appointed in March of 2008. She previously served as an ECAB Judge from 2002 through 2005. Chairman Kiko has also served in the Justice Department as an attorney advisor in the Civil Rights Division and as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, Virginia; as an associate counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights; and in the private practice of law.

Chairman Kiko holds a J.D. from Antonin Scalia Law School and a B.S. degree from North Dakota State University. She was born and raised in North Dakota, and she lives in Virginia with her husband, Phil. They have four children and nine grandchildren.

Hal J. Krent Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Harold Krent graduated from Princeton University and received his law degree from New York University School of Law, where he served as notes editor of the Law Review and garnered several awards for excellence in writing. Krent clerked for the Honorable William H. Timbers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then worked in the Department of Justice for the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division, writing briefs and arguing cases in various courts of appeals across the nation. He has been teaching full-time since 1987 and has focused his scholarship on legal aspects of individuals' interaction with the government. His book, Presidential Powers, is a comprehensive examination of the president's role as defined by the U.S. Constitution and judicial and historical precedents. In addition, Krent has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has also litigated numerous cases with students on behalf of indigent prisoners. Krent joined the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty in 1994. He was appointed associate dean in 1997 and interim dean in 2002 before assuming the deanship on January 1, 2003. He continued is his role as dean until July 31, 2019.

David Lidow Related Seminars and Products

Administrative Judge

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

David R. Lidow is an Administrative Judge with the Merit Systems Protection Board in the Central Regional Office located in Chicago.  The MSPB is an independent, quasi-judicial agency that adjudicates federal employment disputes and whistleblower retaliation claims.   He previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the civil division, representing the United States in employment discrimination cases, claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, civil rights cases, and pursuing fraud claims on behalf of various government programs. 

Martin H. Malin Related Seminars and Products

Chairman

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Martin H. Malin is Professor Emeritus at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, where he taught for 41 years, founded the Institute for Law and the Workplace, and served as Director of the Institute for 25 years. He joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1980 after serving as law clerk to United States District Judge Robert E. DeMascio in Detroit and on the faculty of The Ohio State University. A renown scholar on the law governing the workplace, he has published more than 80 articles and seven books on labor law. Professor Malin has served as National Chair of the Labor Relations and Employment Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, Secretary of the ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law, member of the Executive Committee of the Labor Law Group, member of the Board of Governors and Vice President of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and member of the Board of Governors of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. In October 2009, President Obama appointed Professor Malin as a member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel. President Obama reappointed Professor Malin in 2014 and Malin served until May 2017. In 2016, the ABA presented Professor Malin with the Arvid Anderson Award for lifetime contributions to public sector labor law. He has a B.A. from Michigan State University and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Mike J. McAuley Related Seminars and Products

National Counsel

National Treasury Employees Union

Anna Molpus Related Seminars and Products

Chief Counsel to Memeber Colleen Duffy Kiko

Federal Labor Relations Authority

Daniel C Mullenix Related Seminars and Products

Senior Counsel

IRS, Ofice of Chief Counsel, General Legal Services

Dan Mullenix is appearing on the panel today in his capacity as a trained mediator and Coordinator of the Chicago Federal Executive Board’s Shared Neutrals Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (SNAP). SNAP services are available to federal agencies help resolve a variety of internal workplace disputes – whether used to address interpersonal conflict between two employees, an employee and supervisor, or among a group; or as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in EEO complaints or grievances. Mr. Mullenix has previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he taught an advanced legal writing course focused on labor and employment law.  He received his Juris Doctor, with Honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and his Bachelor of Arts in Classics, Cum Laude, from Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Mullenix is presently serving as Senior Counsel with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS, Office of Chief Counsel – General Legal Services Division (GLS), in the Area Counsel Chicago office. He provides legal advice and litigates complex cases concerning federal sector personnel and labor-management issues before the Merit Systems Protection Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before third parties in arbitration. 

Elisabeth (Elisa) Nolte Related Seminars and Products

Administrative Judge

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

Noah Peters Related Seminars and Products

Sr. Adviser to the Director, Office of Personnel & Management

Office of Personnel Management

Gina Rozman Related Seminars and Products

Administrative Judge

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

Gina N. Rozman joined the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) as an Administrative Judge in 2022. Prior to coming to the MSPB, Gina worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel (OGC) for 9 years. Before she joined OGC, Gina was a litigation associate at Winston & Strawn LLP.  Gina received her J.D. and undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. 

Carolyn Shapiro Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Strategic Initiatives

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Robert Shriver Related Seminars and Products

Managing Director, Civil Service Strong and Good Government Initiatives

Democracy Forward

Brooke Worden Related Seminars and Products

Administrative Judge

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

Brooke Worden is an Administrative Judge with the Merit Systems Protection Board.  Prior to joining the MSPB in 2022, Brooke worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor for 10 years, litigating various employment-related cases.  After receiving her J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, she spent three years in federal clerkships before joining DOL as an honors attorney.