Patricia Ann Shiu is the former Director of
Federal Contract Compliance from 2009 to December 1, 2016 during the administration of
Barack Obama
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.
Prior to joining the Department of Labor, Shiu worked as Vice President for Programs at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center in
San Francisco
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. She worked there for 26 years. Shiu also worked as an associate at the law firm of
Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro
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.
In 1982, Shiu received her J.D. from the
University of San Francisco School of Law
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and in 1979, her B.A. in Political Economy of Industrialized States from the
University of California, Berkeley
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. Born in Chicago, she is half Chinese and half Irish, and is the daughter of Joan Pierce Shiu and Mr. Shiu.
Background
As an attorney, Shiu specialized in employment discrimination and family and medical leave cases. While at the Legal Aid Society, Shiu served as the director of the Society's Work and Family Project. In 1993, Shiu was appointed to the
Department of Education’s Civil Rights Reviewing Authority.
Awards and honors
Shiu has been the Treasurer for the Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association; a past president of the California Women Lawyers; a board member for
California Rural Legal Assistance
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal service and political advocacy organization created to help California's low-income individuals and communities. CRLA represents all types of individuals and communiti ...
, NAPABA, and Asian American Bar Association (AABA). She currently serves as a member of the Grant Advisory Committee of the Impact Fund,
which makes grants to support impact litigation for marginalized communities.
She has received numerous honors for her work including the California Women’s Law Center’s 2002 Abby J. Leibman Pursuit of Justice Award
and the Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition’s 2002 Woman Warrior Award.
In 2009 she was recognized by the Asian American Law Society with its "Joe Morozumi Lifetime Achievement Award" for her "spirit of uncomprising legal advocacy in matters of conscience."
See also
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List of OFCCP DAS
The Director and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OFCCP is the head of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is part of the U.S. Department of Labor. OFCCP is resp ...
References
External links
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1958 births
Living people
University of San Francisco alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
California lawyers
United States Department of Labor officials
Obama administration personnel
American people of Chinese descent