Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Chairs

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Section Title: Chairs
Table Section Text: None

No.	Chair of the EEOC	Photo	Start of term	End of term	President(s)

1	Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.	-	May 26, 1965	May 11, 1966	Lyndon Johnson

2	Stephen N. Shulman	-	September 14, 1966	July 1, 1967

3	Clifford Alexander Jr.	-	August 4, 1967	May 1, 1969

4	William H. Brown III	-	May 5, 1969	December 23, 1973	Richard Nixon

5	John H. Powell Jr.	-	December 28, 1973	March 18, 1975

Acting	Ethel Bent Walsh	1975	Gerald Ford

6	Lowell W. Perry	-	May 27, 1975	May 15, 1976

Acting	Ethel Bent Walsh	May 1976	May 1977

7	Eleanor Holmes Norton	-	May 27, 1977	February 21, 1981	Jimmy Carter

Acting	J. Clay Smith Jr.	1981	1982	Ronald Reagan

8	Clarence Thomas	-	May 6, 1982	March 8, 1990	Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush

9	Evan J. Kemp Jr.	-	March 8, 1990	April 2, 1993	George H. W. Bush

Acting	Tony Gallegos	1993	1994	Bill Clinton

10	Gilbert Casellas	-	September 29, 1994	December 31, 1997

Acting	Paul Igasaki	-	1998

11	Ida L. Castro	-	October 23, 1998	August 13, 2001

12	Cari M. Dominguez	-	August 6, 2001	August 31, 2006	George W. Bush

13	Naomi C. Earp	-	September 1, 2006	2009

Acting	Stuart J. Ishimaru	Stuart Ishimaru.JPG	January 20, 2009	April 7, 2010	Barack Obama

14	Jacqueline A. Berrien	Jacqueline Berrien.JPG	April 7, 2010	September 2, 2014

15	Jenny R. Yang	-	September 2, 2014	January 22, 2017

Acting	Victoria Lipnic	-	January 25, 2017	present	Donald Trump

Sentence(s)

Stuart J. Ishimaru, a Commissioner served as Acting Chair of the Commission from January 20, 2009 until 2010, when the Jacqueline Berrien was confirmed as the chairperson.

final_sentence: Stuart J. Ishimaru, a Commissioner served as Acting Chair of the Commission from January 20, 2009 until 2010, when the Jacqueline Berrien was confirmed as the chairperson.