Jacalyn J. Zimmerman

Arbitrator and Mediator

Jacalyn Zimmerman, Arbitrator and mediator

Jacalyn J. Zimmerman is a labor arbitrator/mediator with a private practice based in the Chicago area. A career labor relations neutral, Jackie maintained an active arbitration practice from 2006 to late 2009, when she suspended the practice to accept an appointment by then-Illinois Governor Pat Quinn as Chair of the Illinois Labor Relations Board.  She held that position until resuming the arbitration practice in September 2012.  She also served as the agency’s founding General Counsel.  She began her legal career as a trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, Region 13.

Jackie is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.  She is a past neutral co-chair of the American Bar Association Committee on State and Local Government Bargaining and Employment Law, and a past president of the Association of Labor Relations Agencies.