Continuation of Kathleen Day Koch as General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority

The President today announced that Kathleen Day Koch will continue to serve as General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of 5 years. She would succeed Dennis M. Devaney.

Since 1988 Ms. Koch has served as General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Prior to this she was Associate Counsel to the President at the White House, 1987 - 1988. She was senior attorney at the Department of Commerce, 1984 - 1987. She was an attorney with the United States Merit Systems Protection Board, 1979 - 1984, and at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1977 - 1979.

Ms. Koch graduated from the University of Missouri at St. Louis (B.S., 1971) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1977). Ms. Koch, a native of St. Louis, currently resides with her three children in Annandale, VA.