Section Meeting

Roberta L. Steele

REGIONAL ATTORNEY FOR SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE EEOC

Roberta L. Steele became the Regional Attorney for the San Francisco District Office of the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in November 2015 and is responsible for the agency’s litigation program in Northern California and Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Before joining the EEOC, Ms. Steele was a partner at the law firm then known as Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian (Oakland, CA), where she spent 17 years litigating plaintiffs’ employment discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions nationally. She also served as the Program Director for the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) for two years directing the organization’s broad range of continuing legal education and advocacy initiatives, including NELA’s Amicus and Judicial Nominations Programs. Ms. Steele was an Executive Editor and Employee Reviewer for Lindemann & Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law, 5th ed. (2013) and 1st supp. (2014). She has been actively involved in the American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section for many years and most recently served as the Employee Program Co-Chair for its Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. Ms. Steele is a frequent lecturer and panelist on subjects relating to the fair employment and wage and hour laws, class and collective actions, and litigation practice and procedure. She received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH, in 1993, where she was an Associate Editor and Notes Editor for its Law Review. In 1990, Ms. Steele graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.