About NLRB

Judge Esposito was appointed in January 2011.  She had previously worked for 9 years as an NLRB field attorney in Region 2 (New York, New York).  Prior to her work at Region 2, she spent 7 years in private practice representing labor unions, benefit funds, and employees in cases before the NLRB and labor arbitration, and in litigation involving employment discrimination, pension and welfare benefit funds issues, and union democracy matters arising under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.  She received a B.A. degree from Swarthmore College and a J.D.

Judge Chu was appointed in July of 2012. He previously served as the Chief Administrative Judge with the EEOC for over 25 years, including a detail as the acting EEOC New York District Deputy Director.  While at the EEOC, he was instrumental in drafting regulatory revisions to the federal sector complaints adjudication process. After almost 30 years with the EEOC, he was selected to an ALJ position with the SSA.

Judge Wedekind was appointed in February of 2010. He previously worked for 20 years at the NLRB headquarters in Washington, D.C. He began as a staff attorney for Chairman Dotson and subsequently served in various senior executive positions, including Deputy Chief Counsel to then-Member Liebman, Chief Counsel to Chairman Truesdale, and Solicitor.  Before joining the NLRB, he represented employees in litigation against employers and unions as a staff attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.  He received a B.A.

Judge Laws was appointed in September of 2011.

Judge Cracraft has been an NLRB judge for almost 20 years, serving as Associate Chief Judge in San Francisco from January 2005 until December 2012. Before her appointment as an NLRB judge in 1995, she had a distinguished career in labor relations law.  She was an attorney in private practice for several years and served a 5-year term as a Member of the Board from 1986 to 1991.  She is a native of Missouri and received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri.

Judge Etchingham has been an administrative law judge in San Francisco since January 2011. He is the former Associate Chief Judge at SF Judges at the NLRB from 2013-January 2024, and he was a federal ALJ at the Office of Administrative Law Judges/DOL for 8 years before transferring to the NLRB in late December 2010. In that capacity, he primarily decided and mediated cases under the Longshore & Harbor Workers Compensation Act and various whistleblower statutes. Prior to that position, he served less than a year as a judge with SSA.

Judge Rosas was appointed in August 2003. In addition to proceedings under the National Labor Relations Act, he has presided over cases brought pursuant to the World Trade Center Victim Compensation Fund, Trading with the Enemy Act, and disciplinary proceedings under the Hatch Act and Treasury Circular 230 (IRS). Judge Rosas also organizes the Division of Judges training conferences and supervises the legal externship program. He served as a judge for the Social Security Administration and the Federal Maritime Commission before transferring to the NLRB.

Judge Goldman was appointed in September of 2005.  He previously worked as an attorney in the NLRB Appellate Court Branch, and as an Assistant and Associate General Counsel for the United Steelworkers of America.  He received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina and his J.D. degree from Columbia University.  He is a past contributing editor of The Developing Labor Law (BNA), and has been a senior editor of How to Take a Case Before the NLRB (BNA) since 1998.  Judge Goldman is an Honorary Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Judge Flynn was appointed in April of 2013.

Judge Carter was appointed in August of 2010. He served as a judge for both the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals and SSA before transferring to the NLRB. Before becoming a judge, he worked as: an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia; a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice; an appellate attorney for the EEOC; and as a law clerk to Judge Diane Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  He received his B.A. degree, with distinction, from Stanford University (class of 1992), and his J.D.