Opening Plenary - The Future of the Federal Civil Service

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.

Noah Peters Related Seminars and Products

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

Office of Personnel Management

Noah Peters is the Senior Advisor to the Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Prior to his work with OPM, he was a partner at Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, and previously a Solicitor and attorney for the Federal Labor Relations Authority for 3 years.

Noah graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law with his J.D.

Robert Shriver Related Seminars and Products

Managing Director, Civil Service Strong and Good Government Initiatives

Democracy Forward

Rob Shriver is the Managing Director of the Civil Service Strong initiative at Democracy Forward and the former Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). During his career, he has focused on supporting and advocating for the federal workforce. 

In his current role, he heads the Civil Service Strong initiative, a coalition that works to protect career civil servants and opposes attempts to politicize the federal workforce. As part of his work at Democracy Forward, he helped launch a new fellowship program aimed at rebuilding expertise within the federal government.

In September 2025, Shriver was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration's 2025 class of Academy Fellows. 

Previously he had two tours of duty at the OPM as Acting Director from 2024-2025 and Deputy Director from 2022-2024

Rob graduated from The George Washington University Law School with his J.D.