Ronald Meisburg
Ronald Meisburg was nominated by President Bush in July, 2005, to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. In January, 2006, Mr. Meisburg received a recess appointment from the President to serve as General Counsel until the Senate adjourned sine die in 2007. Mr. Meisburg was confirmed by the Senate in August, 2006, for a term that expires in August, 2010.
Prior to his service as General Counsel, in December, 2003, Mr. Meisburg was nominated by President Bush to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, and served as a Member under a recess appointment from President Bush from January, 2004, until the Senate adjourned sine die in December, 2004.
Mr. Meisburg is one of only four individuals to have served as both a Board Member and as the General Counsel, and the only person to have received Presidential nominations for both offices. At the end of his term Mr. Meisburg will become the third longest serving General Counsel in the history of the NLRB.
Before coming to the NLRB, Mr. Meisburg engaged in the private practice of law as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart and, prior to that, Heenan, Althen & Roles. In over twenty years of private practice, Mr. Meisburg advised management clients with respect to issues arising under federal labor and employment law and collective bargaining agreements; served as labor counsel in complex business transactions; assisted clients in collective bargaining and in grievance and arbitration cases; and represented clients in matters pending before federal labor and employment agencies, and in federal trial and appellate court litigation.
Prior to entering private practice in 1980, Mr. Meisburg spent six years as a litigator in the Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor, in Washington, D.C., in the Division of Employee Benefits and the Division of Mine Safety and Health. In 1978 he was awarded the Secretary of Labor's Distinguished Achievement Award.
Among other honors he has received, Mr. Meisburg was named an Honorary Trustee of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation in 2004; selected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2006; inducted into the J.M. Atherton High School Hall of Fame in 2008; and named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law in 2009.
Mr. Meisburg was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and is a graduate of Carson-Newman College and the University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law. He is married to Mary Helen Ratchford, and resides in Arlington, Virginia.
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