Jim Bailey is the National Executive Vice President at the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU),
where he has worked throughout his professional career. He started out as an assistant counsel in
Chicago and Oakland, Calif., and later opened NTEU's Denver field office, where he served as National
Counsel for 18 years. Eight years ago, Jim was named Director of Field Operations and split his time
between Denver and Washington, D.C. He has collaborated with local chapters to plan and implement
grassroots legislative and political campaigns and oversees NTEU's training and organizing programs.
Joshua Brown
Joshua Brown is an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of the Chairman of the Federal Labor
Relations Authority, where he works to resolve disputes under the Federal Service
Labor-Management Relations Statute.
As one of the Chairman’s Attorney-Advisors, Joshua drafts recommended decisions in
arbitration, representation, unfair labor practice, and negotiability cases, and he codesigns and delivers training for the agency. During previous details, Joshua assisted
the FLRA’s ALJs in resolving ULP complaints, and he served as the Chairman’s Senior
Attorney, in which capacity he reviewed and revised other attorneys’ written work before
it reached the Chairman.
Joshua earned his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and History from the
University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and his Juris Doctorate from Harvard University in
2009. He was admitted to the Bar of the State of Maryland in 2010 and to the Bar of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2013.
CHARLES R. CENTER
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY
Judge Center was appointed chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for the Federal Labor
Relations Authority in March 2006. Prior to that, he served as the chief judge for the Baltimore
hearing office in the Social Security Administration’s Office of Disability Adjudication and
Review (SSA/ODAR). In addition to managing the judges and support staff assigned to the
FLRA’s Office of Administrative Law Judges, he conducts hearings and issues decisions upon
unfair labor practice complaints issued by the FLRA Office of the General Counsel.
Upon graduation from the University of Georgia in 1986, Judge Center served as a judge
advocate in the Air Force. He was chief of civil law at Holloman AFB for one year before being
named area defense counsel (ADC). As ADC he provided criminal defense representation for
Air Force personnel at bases located throughout the southwest United States and his
accomplishments included an acquittal of a sergeant charged with murder. After serving as ADC
for two years, he completed a two year assignment to Andersen AFB, Guam, where he served as
chief of military justice, labor law, and environmental law before being named deputy staff judge
advocate. In 1991, his office leadership and courtroom skill led to his selection as an assistant
professor for the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he taught in the
Department of Law for three years. After eight years of active duty, Judge Center declined
promotion to major and entered private practice in Atlanta, Georgia.
In three years of private practice, his legal achievements included successful litigation
before the Georgia Court of Appeals on the issue of proximate cause in a wrongful death case,
and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on the issue of a state law tort
claim for conspiracy to engage in predatory pricing. In 1997, Judge Center returned to federal
service and in February 2000, he was named regional attorney for the Seattle Regional Office of
SSA/ODAR. While there he served as the agency’s chief negotiator for bargaining on the initial
master agreement with the newly recognized unit of administrative law judges. In January 2003,
he accepted a position as deputy chief counsel to the Chairman of the FLRA in Washington DC.
He served in that position until his investiture as an administrative law judge for the SSA in
April 2004. After completing ALJ training, Judge Center’s first judicial assignment was in
Macon, Georgia, and six months later he became hearing office chief judge in Baltimore,
Maryland. As hearing office chief judge in Baltimore he led a staff of sixty, including ten ALJs.
Contact Information:
Charles R. Center
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Federal Labor Relations Authority
1400 K Street, NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20424
(202) 218-7950
[email protected]
ROBBIE DIX III
Associate Director
Office of Federal Operations
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Washington DC
Robbie Dix, III, is the Associate Director, of the Office of Federal Operations, Appellate Review Programs
of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As the Associate Director, Mr. Dix is
responsible for the final administrative adjudication of federal employee appeals from final agency
decisions on complaints of unlawful employment discrimination. He directs staff attorneys in the review of
administrative records, preparation and issuance of decisions, and provides legal advice on federal
employee matters before the Commission.
The Office of Federal Operations decides appeals arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
as amended; the Equal Pay Act of 1963; and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The cited statutes
prohibit employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (over 40),
disability, and unequal pay because of sex. The Civil Service Reform Act establishes certain procedures
unique to federal employees. The office decides over 4000 appeals a year and manages a docket of 5,000
receipts plus carryover inventory of 3500 appeals.
Mr. Dix began his employment at the Commission in 1972. He served as a trial attorney in the Offices of
General Counsel and Systemic Programs. In those offices he prosecuted private sector discrimination cases
and conducted investigations of systemic discrimination against major employers. Responsibilities
included resolving a matter against a major airline; concluding the consent decree in EEOC v. AT&T; and
negotiating the consent decree in EEOC v. Local 580.
Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Dix worked as an attorney in the New York City Legal Services
program. In that position he represented low-income residents of Harlem in a variety of general legal
matters.
Mr. Dix graduated from Morehouse College, Atlanta GA, in 1967 and the New York University School of
Law in 1970. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, Southern District
of New York, and the courts of New York.
Paige Hinkle-Bowles
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Civilian Personnel Policy
Ms. Paige Hinkle-Bowles, a member of the Senior
Executive Service, is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy. Her responsibilities
include development and oversight of civilian personnel
plans, policies and programs that affect over 900,000
defense employees worldwide. Ms. Hinkle-Bowles’
portfolio spans the full spectrum of the Human Capital
Lifecycle, to include talent acquisition, development and
sustainment, performance management, strategic workforce
and succession planning, and leader development. Specific
programs within her area include Senior Executive
management, human resources functional community
management, and policy for deployed civilians.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Hinkle-Bowles served as the Principal Director to the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Civilian Personnel Policy. In that capacity, she
co-led an interagency team charged to respond to President Obama’s mandate to better
prepare Service members for transition to civilian life.
Ms. Hinkle-Bowles also served as the Deputy Director of Force Management Policy,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, Headquarters U.S. Air
Force, Washington, D.C., with responsibility for establishing force management policies
for more than 675,000 Air Force military and civilian personnel.
Ms. Hinkle-Bowles entered federal civil service in 1989 as a Strategic Air Command
intern at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. She has held a variety of positions throughout
the Air Force and Department of Defense, to include serving as Director of the Regional
Personnel Center for U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Civilian Personnel Officer at RAF
Mildenhall, England; Deputy Director for Human Resources in the DoD Program
Executive Office, National Security Personnel System; and Director of the Air Force
Senior Executive Management Office.
Ms. Hinkle-Bowles earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Texas
A&M University and her Master of Arts degree in political science and public
administration from Midwestern State University. Her professional military education
includes Squadron Officer School in-residence and Capstone, and she is a graduate of the
Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard University.
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CHRISTOPHER J. KUCZYNSKI, J.D., LL.M.
Chris Kuczynski joined the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in
February 1997 as Assistant Legal Counsel and Director of the ADA Policy Division (now
the ADA/GINA Policy Division). Chris supervises the development of regulations,
policy guidance, and technical assistance publications on Title I of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
(GINA), and regularly advises EEOC field and headquarters offices, including the offices
of the Chair and Commissioners, on complex ADA and GINA issues. He oversaw
development of the final regulations implementing GINA (published in November 2010)
and the ADA Amendments Act (published in March 2011), as well as a recently issued
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the ADA and Employer Wellness Programs (April
20, 2015). Chris has worked on numerous EEO issues in addition to the ADA and
GINA, including supervising the development of Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy
Discrimination and Related Issues (rev. June 25, 2015), issues affecting the rights of
LGBT persons in the workplace, and religious discrimination issues.
Chris has made hundreds of presentations on the ADA (and more recently on GINA) to
diverse audiences, including human resources and EEO professionals, supervisors and
managers in the public and private sectors, medical professionals, and plaintiff and
defense counsel. He has been interviewed on the ADA, GINA, and other EEO issues by
numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA
Today, CBS News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.
From January to October 2003, Chris was a Special Assistant to former EEOC Chair Cari
Dominguez, and from October 2003 through April 2004, he was Associate Director of
the White House Domestic Policy Council. Chris was a trial attorney in the Disability
Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice from July 1993 until February 1997, and
was a litigation associate for three years with a major Philadelphia law firm.
He has a B.A. in English from Villanova University, where he was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and from which he received the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2007 Alumni
Medallion, a J.D. from Temple Law School, and an LL.M. from Yale Law School.
Tim McManus
Vice President, Operations and Education and Outreach
As Vice President of Education and Outreach, Tim leads the Partnership’s efforts to ensure
that government has the talent it needs to meet the country’s critical needs. This includes
overseeing Call to Serve—a vibrant network of more than 770 colleges and universities
dedicated exclusively to promoting federal service—and working directly with federal
agencies, the Administration and Congress to improve federal recruitment and hiring. Tim
has testified on the need to improving the hiring process, greater utilization of internships
and creation of pathways into federal service and is a frequent contributor to Federal News
Radio. Tim also serves as the Vice President for Operations. In this role, he oversees the
Partnership’s finances, office management and human resources.
Tim has more than 20 years of nonprofit experience, as well as experience working in
government for the Corporation for National and Community Service. Tim is a graduate of
St. Olaf College.
Julie M. Wilson is an Associate General Counsel at the National Treasury Employees Union, the
nation’s largest independent union of federal workers. Since joining NTEU in 2003, Julie has
litigated a broad range of constitutional, administrative and labor law issues, including matters
arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Julie has personally evaluated the FLSA classification of more than 50 positions, across multiple
federal agencies and offices. She has led successful negotiations over the terms and mechanics of
reclassification of most of those positions. Julie also has significant experience pursuing
employment-related claims in appellate, district, and administrative forums.
Julie is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and holds a
Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University. She earned her law degree
from American University’s Washington College of Law, where she served as a Senior Editor on
the American University Law Review.