Members of the NLRB since 1935
Key
Bold = Chairman
(AC) = Acting Chairman
Blue = Democrat, Red = Republican, Black = Independent
(r) = recess appointment
Each row represents a change in Board composition. Changes include the arrival or departure of a Member or the designation of a Member as Chairman.
|
The Smith Seat Term expires on August 27 of years ending in 6 and 1. |
The Madden Seat Term expires on August 27 of years ending in 5 and 0. |
The Carmody Seat Term expires on August 27 of years ending in 8 and 3. |
The Murdock Seat Term expires on December 16 of years ending in 7 and 2. |
The Gray Seat
|
Party in Control of the Board |
From |
To |
|
Edwin S. Smith |
J. Warren Madden |
John M. Carmody |
|
|
Dem |
8/27/35 |
8/31/36 |
|
E. Smith |
Madden |
|
|
|
Dem |
9/1/36 |
9/22/36 |
|
E. Smith |
Madden |
Donald Wakefield |
|
|
Dem |
9/23/36 |
5/31/39 |
|
E. Smith |
Madden |
William M. Leiserson |
|
|
Dem |
6/1/39 |
8/26/40 |
|
E. Smith |
|
Leiserson |
|
|
Dem |
8/27/40 |
11/25/40 |
|
E. Smith |
Harry A. Millis |
Leiserson |
|
|
Dem |
11/26/40 |
8/27/41 |
|
|
Millis |
Leiserson |
|
|
Dem |
8/28/41 |
10/10/41 |
|
Gerald D. Reilly |
Millis |
Leiserson |
|
|
Dem |
10/11/41 |
2/23/43 |
|
Reilly |
Millis |
|
|
|
Split |
2/24/43 |
3/14/43 |
|
Reilly |
Millis |
John M. Houston |
|
|
Dem |
3/15/43 |
7/4/45 |
|
Reilly |
Paul M. Herzog |
Houston |
|
|
Dem |
7/5/45 |
8/26/46 |
|
|
Herzog |
Houston |
|
|
Dem |
8/27/46 |
8/27/46 |
|
James J. Reynolds, Jr. |
Herzog |
Houston |
|
|
Dem |
8/28/46 |
7/31/47 |
|
Reynolds |
Herzog |
Houston |
Abe Murdock |
J. Copeland Gray |
Dem |
8/1/47 |
12/16/49 |
|
Reynolds |
Herzog |
Houston |
Murdock |
|
Dem |
12/17/49 |
2/26/50 |
|
Reynolds |
Herzog |
Houston |
Murdock |
Paul L. Styles |
Dem |
2/27/50 |
12/31/51 |
|
|
Herzog |
Houston |
Murdock |
Styles |
Dem |
1/1/52 |
3/20/52 |
|
Ivar H. Peterson |
Herzog |
Houston |
Murdock |
Styles |
Dem |
3/21/52 |
6/30/53 |
|
Peterson |
|
Houston |
Murdock |
Styles |
Dem |
7/1/53 |
7/12/53 |
|
Peterson |
Guy Farmer |
Houston |
Murdock |
Styles |
Dem |
7/13/53 |
8/27/53 |
|
Peterson |
Farmer |
Philip Ray Rodgers |
Murdock |
Styles |
Rep |
8/28/53 |
8/31/53 |
|
Peterson |
Farmer |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
|
Rep |
9/1/53 |
3/1/54 |
|
Peterson |
Farmer |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
Albert C. Beeson |
Rep |
3/2/54 |
12/16/54 |
|
Peterson |
Farmer |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
|
Rep |
12/17/54 |
4/3/55 |
|
Peterson |
Farmer |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
Boyd S. Leedom |
Rep |
4/4/55 |
8/27/55 |
|
Peterson |
|
Rodgers (AC) |
Murdock |
Leedom |
Rep |
8/28/55 |
11/1/55 |
|
Peterson |
|
Rodgers |
Murdock |
Leedom |
Rep |
11/2/55 |
11/30/55 |
|
Peterson |
Stephen S. Bean |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
Leedom |
Rep |
12/1/55 |
8/27/56 |
|
|
Bean |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
Leedom |
Rep |
8/28/56 |
3/27/57 |
|
Joseph Alton Jenkins |
Bean |
Rodgers |
Murdock |
Leedom |
Rep |
3/28/57 |
12/16/57 |
|
J. Jenkins |
Bean |
Rodgers |
|
Leedom |
Rep |
12/17/57 |
12/19/57 |
|
J. Jenkins |
Bean |
Rodgers |
John H. Fanning |
Leedom |
Rep |
12/20/57 |
8/27/60 |
|
J. Jenkins |
|
Rodgers |
Fanning |
Leedom |
Split |
8/28/60 |
9/12/60 |
|
J. Jenkins |
Arthur A. Kimball |
Rodgers |
Fanning |
Leedom |
Rep |
9/13/60 |
3/6/61 |
|
J. Jenkins |
Frank W. McCulloch |
Rodgers |
Fanning |
Leedom |
Dem |
3/7/61 |
3/27/61 |
|
|
McCulloch |
Rodgers |
Fanning |
Leedom |
Split |
3/28/61 |
4/13/61 |
|
Gerald A. Brown |
McCulloch |
Rodgers |
Fanning |
Leedom |
Dem |
4/14/61 |
8/27/63 |
|
Brown |
McCulloch |
Howard |
Fanning |
Leedom |
Dem |
8/28/63 |
12/16/64 |
|
Brown |
McCulloch |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
|
Dem |
12/17/64 |
4/19/65 |
|
Brown |
McCulloch |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Sam Zagoria |
Dem |
4/20/65 |
12/16/69 |
|
Brown |
McCulloch |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
|
Dem |
12/17/69 |
6/2/70 |
|
Brown |
McCulloch |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Edward B. Miller |
Dem |
6/3/70 |
8/27/70 |
|
Brown |
|
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
E. Miller |
Split |
8/28/70 |
12/13/70 |
|
Brown |
Ralph E. Kennedy |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
E. Miller |
Rep |
12/14/70 |
8/27/71 |
|
|
Kennedy |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
E. Miller |
Rep |
8/28/71 |
2/21/72 |
|
John A. Penello |
Kennedy |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
E. Miller |
Rep |
2/22/72 |
12/16/74 |
|
Penello |
Kennedy |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning (AC) |
|
Split |
12/17/74 |
2/17/75 |
|
Penello |
Kennedy |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Betty S. Murphy |
Rep |
2/18/75 |
7/31/75 |
|
Penello |
|
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Murphy |
Split |
8/1/75 |
11/25/75 |
|
Penello |
Peter D. Walther |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Murphy |
Rep |
11/26/75 |
4/13/77 |
|
Penello |
Walther |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Murphy |
Rep |
4/14/77 |
8/31/77 |
|
Penello |
|
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Murphy |
Split |
9/1/77 |
10/24/77 |
|
Penello |
John C. Truesdale |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Murphy |
Dem |
10/25/77 |
12/14/79 |
|
Penello |
Truesdale |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
|
Dem |
12/15/79 |
8/27/80 |
|
Penello |
|
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
|
Dem |
8/28/80 |
9/16/80 |
|
Penello |
|
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Don A. Zimmerman |
Split2/1/1 |
9/17/80 |
10/22/80 |
|
Penello |
Truesdale |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Zimmerman |
Dem |
10/23/80 |
1/14/81 |
|
|
Truesdale |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Zimmerman |
Split2/1/1 |
1/15/81 |
1/26/81 |
|
|
|
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Zimmerman |
Split1/1/1 |
1/27/81 |
8/13/81 |
|
|
Robert P. Hunter (r) |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Zimmerman |
Split2/1/1 |
8/14/81 |
8/14/81 |
|
|
Hunter (r) |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Zimmerman |
Split2/1/1 |
8/15/81 |
8/17/81 |
|
John R. Van de Water (r) |
Hunter (r) |
H. Jenkins |
Fanning |
Zimmerman |
Rep |
8/18/81 |
12/16/82 |
|
|
Hunter |
H. Jenkins |
|
Zimmerman |
Rep |
12/17/82 |
12/22/82 |
|
|
Hunter |
H. Jenkins |
John C. Miller (r) |
Zimmerman |
Rep |
12/23/82 |
3/6/83 |
|
|
Hunter |
H. Jenkins |
Donald L. Dotson |
Zimmerman |
Rep |
3/7/83 |
3/7/83 |
|
|
Hunter |
H. Jenkins |
Dotson |
Zimmerman |
Rep |
3/8/83 |
5/4/83 |
|
Patricia Diaz Dennis |
Hunter |
H. Jenkins |
Dotson |
Zimmerman |
Rep |
5/5/83 |
8/27/83 |
|
Dennis |
Hunter |
|
Dotson |
Zimmerman |
Split2/1/1 |
8/28/83 |
12/16/84 |
|
Dennis |
Hunter |
|
Dotson |
|
Rep |
12/17/84 |
5/27/85 |
|
Dennis |
Hunter |
Wilford W. Johansen |
Dotson |
|
Rep |
5/28/85 |
6/31/85 |
|
Dennis |
Hunter |
Johansen |
Dotson |
Marshall B. Babson |
Rep |
7/1/85 |
8/27/85 |
|
Dennis |
|
Johansen |
Dotson |
Babson |
Split |
8/28/85 |
10/15/85 |
|
Dennis |
James M. Stephens |
Johansen |
Dotson |
Babson |
Rep |
10/16/85 |
6/24/86 |
|
|
Stephens |
Johansen |
Dotson |
Babson |
Rep |
6/25/86 |
11/6/86 |
|
Mary M. Cracraft |
Stephens |
Johansen |
Dotson |
Babson |
Rep |
11/7/86 |
12/16/87 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Johansen |
|
Babson |
Split |
12/17/87 |
7/31/88 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Johansen |
|
|
Rep |
8/1/88 |
8/28/88 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Johansen (r) |
John E. Higgins, Jr. (r) |
|
Rep |
8/29/88 |
11/21/88 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Johansen (r) |
Higgins (r) |
Dennis M. Devaney (r) |
Rep |
11/22/88 |
6/15/89 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
|
Higgins (r) |
Devaney (r) |
Split |
6/16/89 |
11/22/89 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
|
|
Devaney |
Dem |
11/23/89 |
12/13/89 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Clifford R. Oviatt (r) |
|
Devaney |
Split |
12/14/89 |
12/16/89 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Oviatt (r) |
|
Devaney (r) |
Split |
12/17/89 |
8/2/90 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Oviatt |
|
Devaney |
Split |
8/3/90 |
8/26/90 |
|
Cracraft |
Stephens |
Oviatt |
John N. Raudabaugh |
Devaney |
Rep |
8/27/90 |
8/27/91 |
|
|
Stephens |
Oviatt |
Raudabaugh |
Devaney |
Rep |
8/28/91 |
12/16/92 |
|
|
Stephens |
Oviatt |
|
Devaney |
Rep |
12/17/92 |
12/18/92 |
|
|
Stephens |
Oviatt |
Raudabaugh (r) |
Devaney |
Rep |
12/19/92 |
5/28/93 |
|
|
Stephens |
|
Raudabaugh (r) |
Devaney |
. |
5/28/93 |
11/26/93 |
|
|
Stephens |
|
|
Devaney |
Split |
11/27/93 |
1/23/94 |
|
|
Stephens |
|
Truesdale (r) |
Devaney |
Dem |
1/24/94 |
3/3/94 |
|
|
Stephens |
|
|
Devaney |
Split |
3/4/94 |
3/6/94 |
|
|
Stephens |
William B. Gould IV |
|
Devaney |
Dem |
3/7/94 |
3/8/94 |
|
|
Stephens |
Gould |
Margaret A. Browning |
Devaney |
Dem |
3/9/94 |
3/17/94 |
|
Charles I. Cohen |
Stephens |
Gould |
Browning |
Devaney |
Dem |
3/18/94 |
12/16/94 |
|
Cohen |
Stephens |
Gould |
Browning |
|
Split |
12/17/94 |
12/22/94 |
|
Cohen |
Stephens |
Gould |
Browning |
Truesdale (r) |
Dem |
12/23/94 |
8/27/95 |
|
Cohen |
|
Gould |
Browning |
Truesdale (r) |
Dem |
8/28/95 |
1/3/96 |
|
Cohen |
|
Gould |
Browning |
|
Dem |
1/4/96 |
2/5/96 |
|
Cohen |
Sarah M. Fox (r) |
Gould |
Browning |
|
Dem |
2/6/96 |
8/27/96 |
|
|
Fox (r) |
Gould |
Browning |
|
Dem |
8/28/96 |
9/2/96 |
|
Higgins (r) |
Fox (r) |
Gould |
Browning |
|
Dem |
9/3/96 |
2/28/97 |
|
Higgins (r) |
Fox (r) |
Gould |
|
|
Dem |
3/1/97 |
11/7/97 |
|
Higgins (r) |
|
Gould |
|
Fox |
Dem |
11/8/97 |
11/13/97 |
|
Peter J. Hurtgen |
|
Gould |
Wilma B. Liebman |
Fox |
Dem |
11/14/97 |
11/16/97 |
|
Hurtgen |
J. Robert Brame III |
Gould |
Liebman |
Fox |
Dem |
11/17/97 |
8/27/98 |
|
Hurtgen |
Brame |
|
Liebman |
Fox |
Split |
8/28/98 |
12/3/98 |
|
Hurtgen |
Brame |
Truesdale (r) |
Liebman |
Fox |
Dem |
12/4/98 |
11/18/99 |
|
Hurtgen |
Brame |
Truesdale |
Liebman |
Fox |
Dem |
11/19/99 |
12/16/99 |
|
Hurtgen |
Brame |
Truesdale |
Liebman |
Fox (r) |
Dem |
12/17/99 |
8/27/00 |
|
Hurtgen |
|
Truesdale |
Liebman |
Fox (r) |
Dem |
8/28/00 |
12/15/00 |
|
Hurtgen |
|
Truesdale |
Liebman |
|
Dem |
12/16/00 |
12/29/00 |
|
Hurtgen |
Dennis P. Walsh (r) |
Truesdale |
Liebman |
|
Dem |
12/30/00 |
5/14/01 |
|
Hurtgen |
Walsh (r) |
Truesdale |
Liebman |
|
Dem |
5/15/01 |
8/27/01 |
|
|
Walsh (r) |
Truesdale |
Liebman |
|
Dem |
8/28/01 |
8/30/01 |
|
Hurtgen (r) |
Walsh (r) |
Truesdale |
Liebman |
|
Dem |
8/31/01 |
10/1/01 |
|
Hurtgen (r) |
Walsh (r) |
|
Liebman |
|
Dem |
10/2/01 |
12/20/01 |
|
Hurtgen (r) |
|
|
Liebman |
|
Split |
12/21/01 |
1/21/02 |
|
Hurtgen (r) |
Michael J. Bartlett (r) |
William B. Cowen (r) |
Liebman |
|
Rep |
1/22/02 |
8/1/02 |
|
|
Bartlett (r) |
Cowen (r) |
Liebman |
|
Rep |
8/2/02 |
11/22/02 |
|
|
|
|
Liebman |
|
Dem |
11/23/02 |
12/16/02 |
|
Liebman |
Peter C. Schaumber |
R. Alexander Acosta |
Robert J. Battista |
Walsh |
Rep |
12/17/02 |
8/21/03 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
|
Battista |
Walsh |
Split |
8/22/03 |
1/11/04 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
Ronald E. Meisburg (r) |
Battista |
Walsh |
Rep |
1/12/04 |
12/8/04 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
|
Battista |
Walsh |
Split |
12/9/04 |
12/16/04 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
|
Battista |
|
Rep |
12/17/04 |
8/27/05 |
|
Liebman |
|
|
Battista |
|
Split |
8/28/05 |
8/30/05 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber (r) |
|
Battista |
|
Rep |
8/31/05 |
1/3/06 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber (r) |
Peter N. Kirsanow (r) |
Battista |
|
Rep |
1/4/06 |
1/16/06 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber (r) |
Kirsanow (r) |
Battista |
Walsh (r) |
Rep |
1/17/06 |
8/2/06 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
Kirsanow (r) |
Battista |
Walsh (r) |
Rep |
8/3/06 |
12/16/07 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
Kirsanow (r) |
|
Walsh (r) |
Rep |
12/17/07 |
12/31/07 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
|
|
|
Split |
1/1/08 |
3/17/08 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
|
|
|
Split |
3/18/08 |
1/20/09 |
|
Liebman |
Schaumber |
|
|
|
Split |
1/20/09 |
3/26/10 |
| Liebman | Schaumber | Mark G. Pearce (r) | Craig Becker (r) | Dem | 3/27/10 | 6/21/10 | |
| Liebman | Schaumber | Pearce | Brian Hayes | Becker (r) | Dem | 6/22/10 | 8/27/10 |
| Liebman | Pearce | Hayes | Becker (r) | Dem | 8/28/10 | 8/27/11 | |
| Pearce | Hayes | Becker (r) | Dem | 8/28/11 | 1/3/12 | ||
| Pearce | Hayes | Split | 1/3/12 | 1/9/12 | |||
|
Richard Griffin (r) |
Terrence F. Flynn (r) | Pearce | Hayes | Sharon Block (r) | Dem | 1/9/12 | 7/24/12 |
| Griffin (r) | Pearce | Hayes | Block (r) | Dem | 7/25/12 | 12/16/12 | |
| Griffin (r) | Pearce | Block (r) | Dem | 12/17/12 | Present |

