Robert William Packwood is an American retired lawyer and politician from Oregon and a member of the Republican Party. He resigned from the United States Senate,under threat of expulsion,in 1995 after allegations of sexual harassment,abuse and assault of women emerged.
Robert Paul Griffin was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represented Michigan in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He co-sponsored the Landrum-Griffin Act,which regulates the internal affairs of labor unions. As a deputy minority leader in the Senate,he called on President Richard Nixon,a fellow Republican,to resign during the Watergate scandal.
Pete Sorenson in Washoe County,Nevada is a lawyer practicing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) law and a former elected official from Lane County,Oregon. He has brought Freedom of Information Act cases in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against many different federal agencies including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In his time practicing FOIA law he has secured the release of over a million records.
The President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) was established to advise the President of the United States on issues concerning the status of women. It was created by John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10980 signed December 14,1961. In 1975 it became the National Association of Commissions for Women.
The government of the U.S. state of Oregon,as prescribed by the Oregon Constitution,is composed of three government branches:the executive,the legislative,and the judicial. These branches operate in a manner similar to that of the federal government of the United States.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) is an agency in the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is headed by the Commissioner of Labor and Industries,a nonpartisan,statewide elective office. The term of office is four years. The current Commissioner is Val Hoyle.
Katherine Brown is an American politician and attorney serving as the 38th governor of Oregon since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997,three terms as the state senator from the 21st district of the Oregon Senate from 1997 to 2009,three terms as majority leader of the Oregon Senate from 2003 to 2009,as well as two terms as Oregon Secretary of State from 2009 to 2015. She assumed the governorship upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber in 2015. She was elected to serve out the remainder of his gubernatorial term in the special election in 2016 and was reelected to a full term in 2018.
Suzanne Marie Bonamici is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 1st congressional district,a seat she was first elected to in a 2012 special election. The district includes most of Portland west of the Willamette River,as well as all of Yamhill,Columbia,Clatsop,and Washington counties.
Thomas Edward Perez is an American politician and attorney who served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from February 2017 until January 2021. Perez was previously Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (2009–2013) and United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017). He was a GU Politics Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service in 2021.
Betty Cantrell Roberts was an American politician and judge from the U.S. state of Oregon. She was the 83rd Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,the highest state court in Oregon. She was the first woman on the Oregon Supreme Court,and had also been the first woman on the Oregon Court of Appeals. Roberts served from 1982 to 1986 on the high court and from 1977 to 1982 on the Court of Appeals.
María Elena Durazo is an American politician serving in the California State Senate. A Democrat,she represents the 24th State Senate district,which encompasses Central Los Angeles and East Los Angeles.
Bradley Paul Avakian is an American politician who served as a Democrat in the Oregon House,the Oregon Senate,and as the state's nonpartisan elected Labor Commissioner.
Ole P. Hoff was a Norwegian-American Republican politician and the first commissioner of labor in the U.S. state of Oregon. Hoff was the sole employee of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspector of Factories and Workshops when he was appointed commissioner after the bureau's creation by the state legislature on June 2,1903. He served as Labor Commissioner until 1919,when he became the Oregon State Treasurer. He died in office on March 18,1924.
John Francis Henning was a U.S. labor leader,civil servant,and a former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969) and Under Secretary of Labor (1962–1967). Called "one of organized labor's greatest leaders" and "legendary" for his defense of labor,he is also credited with a positive role in the defense of minimum wage laws and civil rights.
M. Patricia Smith was the Solicitor of the United States Department of Labor,the department's chief law interpreter-enforcer and third-ranking official from 2009 to 2017. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the Solicitor of Labor on April 20,2009. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 4,2010,assumed her duties on March 1,2010,had her swearing-in ceremony on April 23,2010,and remained in office until January 19,2017. As Solicitor of Labor,Smith oversaw over 450 attorneys across the country and more than 180 Federal labor laws and implementing regulations that cover about 125 million workers.
Patricia Diaz Dennis is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1992 to 1993.
Betty Jane Southard Murphy was an American attorney who was the first woman to serve on the National Labor Relations Board,serving as the agency's eighth chair from 1975 to 1977. She was also the first woman to lead the United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division,and co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus and the Republican National Lawyers Association.
Val Hoyle is an American politician serving as the commissioner of Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI).
Frank Livezey Roberts was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat,Roberts served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. He served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and most of five terms in the Oregon Senate before resigning due to poor health. Roberts was married three times,including to Barbara Roberts,who was the first woman to serve as Governor of Oregon,and to Betty Roberts,who was the first woman to serve as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.
The Oregon Commissioner of Labor is an elected government position in the U.S. state of Oregon. The commissioner is the chief executive of Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries and serves a four-year term.
