A panel of MSPB Administrative Judges will review selected recent decisions and discuss their significance for practitioners litigating appeals before the Board.
Jennifer M. Cassell joined the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) as an Administrative Judge in 2020. Prior to coming to the MSPB, Jennifer worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel (OGC) for 11 years. Prior to joining OGC, she clerked for Judge Ann Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Jennifer received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. She previously taught advanced legal writing at her alma mater.
Dan Fine joined the Merit Systems Protection Board as an Administrative Judge in 2019. His career in government began as staffer on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Most recently, he was a partner at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, where he worked on a variety of litigation matters.
Prior to joining the Merit Systems Protection Board in 2019, Mary Senoo spent nineteen years with the Social Security Administration’s Office of the General Counsel in Chicago. Her practice primarily focused on employment and labor law, including labor arbitrations, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission litigation and an occasional MSPB appeal. During her last nine years with SSA, Mary was responsible for the oversight of the agency’s EEOC litigation practice and labor arbitrations in the Chicago Region. Mary received her J.D. from Temple University in 1999 after having spent several years living and working in Japan.