Susan Harthill

Susan Harthill was appointed as Chair of the Board and Chief Administrative Appeals Judge in May 2022. She has practiced and taught employment law for the entirety of her legal career. Prior to her appointment to the ARB, Chief Judge Harthill practiced employment law in the Washington D.C. office of a global law firm. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Solicitor of Labor for National Operations in the Office of the Solicitor at the DOL, where she oversaw the legal advice provided to all DOL agencies under the laws administered and enforced by DOL. Chief Judge Harthill was also formerly a tenured Professor of Law, teaching employment law and employment discrimination, civil procedure and evidence, and an employment lawyer in private practice in Washington D.C. She has also served as a lawyer at the Legal Aid Society of D.C. and as a Commissioner on the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission in Jacksonville, Florida. Chief Judge Harthill earned a B.A. from the University of Leeds, England, an M.Sc. from the University of Bristol, England, and a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association.