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

The President today recess-appointed Kathleen Day Koch to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of 5 years. She would succeed Dennis M. Devaney.

Since 1987 Ms. Koch has been Associate Counsel to the President at the White House in Washington, DC. Prior to this she was senior attorney at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, 1984-1987. She was an attorney for the Merit Systems Protection Board, 1979-1984; and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1977-1979.

Ms. Koch graduated from the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1977) and the University of Missouri-St. Louis (B.S., 1971). She was born November 27, 1948, in St. Louis, MO. Ms. Koch has three children and currently resides in Annandale, VA.