Wednesday, June 30,
2004 202/273-1991
DOROTHY WILSON IS NAMED REGIONAL ATTORNEY
OF NLRB'S MEMPHIS REGIONAL
OFFICE
National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Arthur F. Rosenfeld today announced the appointment of Dorothy Wilson as Regional Attorney in the NLRB's Memphis, TN Regional Office (Region 26). Region 26 includes the Regional Office in Memphis, and Resident Offices in Nashville, TN and Little Rock, AR.
A career NLRB employee, Ms. Wilson had been serving as Deputy Regional Attorney in the Nashville Resident Office. In her new position, she will supervise all legal matters arising in Region 26, which encompasses Tennessee, Arkansas, and counties in Mississippi and Kentucky.
The National Labor Relations Act is a federal law that regulates labor-management relations in the private sector. In enforcing this law, the NLRB conducts secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees desire union representation and investigates, prosecutes and remedies unfair labor practices committed by employers and unions.
Commenting on the appointment, General Counsel Rosenfeld remarked:
A veteran NLRB attorney, Dottie brings a wealth of
experience to her new position. She has
been a leader in the development of several national programs, including the
legal writing program and our case tracking system. Throughout her NLRB career, Dottie has demonstrated extraordinary
skill, professionalism and dedication.
The Agency and Region 26 are fortunate to have such a fine attorney to
assume this important post.
A native of Macon, GA, Ms. Wilson is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Auburn University, where she earned her B.A. degree in 1972. She graduated from the University of Georgia Law School in 1975 and worked for the State of Georgia until 1979, when she moved to St. Louis, MO. Ms. Wilson joined the NLRB’s St. Louis Regional Office (Region 14) in 1981 and was promoted to supervisory attorney in 1991. She was appointed Deputy Regional
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Attorney in Region 14 in 1997, and remained in that position until August 2000, when she moved to Nashville to accompany her husband to a new position. She was promoted to the Deputy Regional Attorney position in Nashville in 2001.
Ms. Wilson’s husband, Bob Thompson, is a professor at Vanderbilt University. They have two sons, Blake who will be entering law school at the University of California, Berkeley in August, and Hunter, a recent graduate of Wake Forest University.
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