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NLRB recess appointments
January 06, 2006 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
The President has recess appointed one NLRB Member and a new General Counsel.
Peter N. Kirsanow was appointed to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the remainder of a five-year term expiring August 27, 2008.
Ronald E. Meisburg was appointed to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
This bring the Board membership up to four (of a possible five): three Republicans and one Democrat.
The nomination of Democrat Dennis P. Walsh to be a Member of the NLRB is still pending in the Senate.
As the Labor Law Blog has pointed out:
The recess appointment of Kirsanow is significant. With three Republican Members now on the Board (for the first time since December 2004), the Bush Board now has the potential to overrule Clinton-Board precedent. The Board has had a three-Member Republican majority during only approximately two years of President Bush's five years in office.
NLRB Member Peter N. Kirsanow, of Ohio, was a Partner with Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP. In addition, he served as a Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Mr. Kirsanow previously served as Senior Legal Counsel for Leaseway Transportation Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to that, he served as Labor Counsel for the City of Cleveland. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kirsanow practiced law with Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his JD from Cleveland Marshall College of Law."
This biography from the web site of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP.
Mr. Kirsanow focuses his practice on representing management in employment-related litigation, as well as in contract negotiations, NLRB proceedings, EEO matters, and arbitration. He frequently testifies before and advises members of the U.S. Congress on various employment laws and issues.Mr. Kirsanow formerly served as senior labor counsel of Leaseway Transportation Corp. and labor counsel for the city of Cleveland.
He has extensive experience in public sector employment matters as well as in industries such as heavy manufacturing, trucking, health care, radio and television and employee leasing.
Mr. Kirsanow is past chair of the board of directors of the Center for New Black Leadership, is on the advisory board of the National Center for Public Policy Research and has been an adjunct professor at Cleveland Marshall College of Law.
Mr. Kirsanow was appointed by President Bush to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in December 2001.
NLRB General Counsel Ronald E. Meisburg, a Republican, previously served as a Member of the NLRB under a recess appointment made by President Bush on December 26, 2003. That appointment expired December 16, 2004.
Prior to serving on the Board, Meisburg had been a shareholder with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. in Washington, D.C. He previously was a partner with Heenan, Althen & Roles in Washington, and served at the U.S. Department of Labor in the Office of the Solicitor of Labor. While at the Department of Labor, Mr. Meisburg served in the Division of Employee Benefits and the Division of Mine Safety and Health and was awarded the Secretary of Labor's Distinguished Achievement Award. He received a B.A. degree from Carson-Newman College in 1969 and a J.D. from the University of Louisville in 1974.
Mr. Meisburg was president of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation (1994 - 1995); a member of the Employment Lawyers Advisory Council of the National Association of Manufacturers (1996-1998); and a member of the Industrial Relations Committee of the U.S. Council for International Business (1993-1998).
Mr. Meisburg is married to Mary Helen Ratchford. The family resides in Arlington, VA.
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