The National Women’s Law Center Action Fund and 32 other organizations committed to civil rights, workers’ rights, and gender and racial justice submitted the attached letter expressing our strong opposition to the confirmation of Catherine Eschbach to serve as General Counsel for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC” or “Commission”). Eschbach has served as Acting General Counsel for EEOC since October 2025 and has served as a rubber stamp for the Trump administration’s anti-civil rights agenda, at the expense of workers. Her record of undermining anti-discrimination law and civil rights enforcement—in her time at EEOC, in her previous roles in the federal government, and in the private sector—demonstrates that she is not fit to serve in a leadership role at this critically important civil rights agency.
Read the full letter here.