PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES OF THE FLRA
MEMBERS OF THE AUTHORITY
CHAIR
Phyllis N. Segal was appointed Chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority by President Clinton after having been confirmed by the United States Senate in July 1994 to a 5-year term as a Member of the Authority. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Segal was Senior Mediator and Director of Employment Dispute Resolution Services at JAMS/ENDISPUTE, a national dispute resolution firm providing mediation, facilitation, arbitration, dispute system design and training services. Before becoming a dispute resolution professional, she practiced law for eighteen years in the private and public sectors, serving as Deputy Attorney General of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, General Counsel of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and Construction, Legal Director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and a litigator in a New York law firm. Ms. Segal was a Public Policy Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and a member of the adjunct faculty at the New York University Law School. She received a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she served on the law review, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. Ms. Segal, who is a member of the Board of the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, has published articles on a variety of subjects, including employment dispute resolution, interest-based problem solving and work and family issues.
MEMBERS
Dale Cabaniss was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as a Member of the Authority in December 1997 to a 5-year term. Before joining the FLRA, she served as a professional staff member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor and Health and Human Services, serving as the principal legal advisor to the Chairman, Ted Stevens of Alaska. Member Cabaniss also served as the Chief Counsel for the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil Service. In addition, she worked for Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska as his Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant. Ms. Cabaniss received a B.A. from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
Donald S. Wasserman was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as a Member of the Authority in December, 1995. Before joining the FLRA, Mr. Wasserman served as Director of Research and Collective Bargaining Services for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). He had been with AFSCME since 1967. Before that, he worked at the International Association of Machinists, Communications Workers of America and the U.S. Department of Labor. He was formerly on the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Executive Board of the Industrial Relations Research Association and President of the Washington, D.C. IRRA Chapter; and was a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Mr. Wasserman has authored a variety of articles dealing with collective bargaining, wages and working conditions, and productivity. Mr. Wasserman earned a B.S. from Temple University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
THE GENERAL COUNSEL
Joseph Swerdzewski was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as General Counsel of the FLRA in November 1993. He was renominated for a second term and was confirmed in October 1998, becoming FLRA’s longest serving senatorially confirmed General Counsel. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Swerdzewski served as Counsel for Special Outreach for the FLRA’s Office of the General Counsel from July 1991 to April 1993. He served as Regional Attorney of the Denver Region of the FLRA from May 1982 until July 1991, and began his tenure with the FLRA as a Supervisory Attorney in the Los Angeles Region in 1979. While with the FLRA, he published an article in the Colorado Lawyer entitled “Federal Sector Labor Relations for the Private Sector Practitioner.”
Before coming to the FLRA, Mr. Swerdzewski served as a Judge Advocate in the United States Air Force for four years. During this period, he acted as labor counsel and management representative in all areas of Federal sector labor relations and personnel relations. He is currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve.
Mr. Swerdzewski received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his J.D. from Fordham University Law School in New York, New York. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1975 and the Colorado State Bar in 1985.
MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL SERVICE IMPASSES PANEL
CHAIR
Betty A. Bolden was appointed Chair of the Panel by President Clinton on October 4, 1994, to fill the term of the former Panel Chairman which expired on January 10, 1995. On January 11, 1995, she was reappointed for a full 5-year term. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois (B.A.) and DePaul University (M.A.). Prior to her appointment, Ms. Bolden retired as a career Federal employee of the Department of Labor, rising to the level of Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor in 1993, where she acted as liaison to DOL program agencies and the Deputy Secretary. Ms. Bolden has a wealth of Federal sector experience in the areas of administration, personnel, and labor- management relations. She has been a self-employed dealer of out-of-print books since 1988, and is a resident of the District of Columbia.
MEMBERS
Gilbert Carrillo, who was initially appointed to the Panel by President Clinton on January 20, 1995, and reappointed for a full 5-year term on January 11, 1997, is a partner at Carrillo & Manners, P.A., in Miami, Florida, and General Counsel for the National Federation of Public & Private Employees, AFL-CIO, a labor organization primarily representing public sector employees in the State of Florida. He is a graduate of the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico (B.A.) and the Columbia University School of Law (J.D.). He also currently serves as Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors of the Miami Chapter of SER, Jobs for Progress, a nationwide non-profit employment and training organization. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Carrillo served as an Administrative Judge in the Hearing Unit of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Miami, Florida. From 1979 through 1987, Mr. Carrillo was in private practice specializing in employment and labor law; he was also a Field Attorney at the National Labor Relations Board from 1975 to 1979. Mr. Carrillo resides in Davie, Florida.
Bonnie Prouty Castrey was appointed as a Member of the Panel on January 20, 1995, by President Clinton. She served for 10 years as a Commissioner with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service before establishing a private practice in dispute resolution. She also served as International President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution from 1990 to 1991. She is active in several IRRA Chapters and was elected to the National Industrial Relations Research Association Board of Directors in 1998 for a 3-year term. She earned a J.D. from Western State University College of Law and a nursing degree from California State, Long Beach. Ms. Castrey currently resides in Huntington Beach, California, where she was elected to her fourth term as a Trustee of the Huntington Beach Union High School District Board.
Stanley M. Fisher, who was appointed to the Panel by President Clinton on December 21, 1994, is currently Of Counsel with the law firm of Arter & Hadden. His practice now focuses on arbitration, mediation and counseling. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D.), a member of the National Uniform Law Commission (NULC), Chairman of the NULC Committee that drafted the Model Employment Termination Act, and is currently Division Chair for the NULC drafting committee to revise the Uniform Arbitration Act and for a Uniform Mediation Act as well as other drafting and study committees. He is a former National President of the Federal Bar Association, and American Counsel Association, and an adjunct professor of law at Cleveland State University School of Law, where he teaches Ethics and Professionalism. Mr. Fisher resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Dolly M. Gee was appointed to the Panel on October 21, 1994, by President Clinton. She graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the UCLA School of Law. Ms. Gee is a partner at Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers in Los Angeles, California, where she specializes in labor and employment law. Previously, Ms. Gee was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Milton L. Schwartz at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. She served as a Lawyer Representative at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference from 1993 to 1996. From 1992 to 1993, she was President of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association. She resides in Pasadena, California.
Edward F. Hartfield, who was appointed to the Panel on October 20, 1994, is the executive director of the National Center for Dispute Settlement. He is involved in mediating union- management contract negotiation disputes, designing dispute resolution systems, and training and advising U.S. and Japanese companies in innovative negotiation practices. He also served as a commissioner of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service at both the national and Detroit
offices from 1979 to 1988, as a state mediator for the New Jersey Office of Dispute Settlement from 1976 to 1978, and as the International President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) in 1989-90. Mr. Hartfield is a resident of St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
Mary E. Jacksteit is an arbitrator, a mediator, and conflict resolution consultant, and is associated with the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization, Search for Common Ground. She was appointed to the Panel by President Clinton on January 23, 1995. Previously, she was an attorney in private practice and an attorney for the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL- CIO, rising to be Deputy General Counsel. She earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975, and a M.A. from George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 1993. She resides in Takoma Park, Maryland.