EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Coalition Urges Confirmation of Chair of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative organizations is urging the Senate to confirm the chair of an independent agency used by the Biden administration to push gender transitions and abortion.

Throughout the second Trump administration, Andrea Lucas has served as the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Lucas has served on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 2020, when she was nominated as a commissioner by President Donald Trump during his first term and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.  

“In just a few short months, the Lucas-led EEOC has rooted out DEI-related discrimination practices in some of the nation’s largest law firms, launched new pathways for workers and employers to report DEI-related discrimination, and won numerous legal actions against companies who were systematically harassing employees based on race and other factors,” reads the coalition letter, signed by Advancing American Freedom, Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, Defending Education, the Christian Employers Alliance, Concerned Women for America, and Council for National Policy.

Former Democrat Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels imposed a gender-identity mandate requiring employers to treat males as females and allow employees access to private spaces based on gender identity. Samuels and fellow Democrat Charlotte Burrows also misused the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which is supposed to protect pregnant women, to promote a pro-abortion agenda, silence pro-life speech by employers, and force employers to facilitate elective abortions.

However, Lucas “has already taken strong steps toward a more evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws,” the letter says.

“No longer is the EEOC the tip of the left-wing spear,” according to the coalition. “Rather, Mrs. Lucas has restored the EEOC to what it was always intended to be—an office that fights to eliminate workplace discrimination, no matter what form it takes, and to promote equality under the law.”

Lucas removed gender ideology from EEOC operations while increasing its defense of women in the workplace suffering under sex-based harassment. She also led efforts to restore and protect religious liberty in the workplace.

“The list of her successes and ongoing actions is long and unable to be fully detailed here,” the coalition wrote. “From protecting veterans to people with disabilities to Jewish workers under antisemitic attack, Mrs. Lucas has quickly turned the EEOC into an agency that fairly yet fiercely seeks justice for all types of violations of federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination.”