Appointees

Andrea Lucas

  • Commissioner and Acting Chair
    • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
    • U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
  • As a commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Lucas helps implement and enforce Federal employment discrimination laws, including those on sex discrimination, which involves pregnancy, childbirth, transgender status, and sexual orientation. Lucas plays a key role in the Commission’s Federal rulemaking process, including developing and drafting regulations and reviewing public comments. Her role also includes investigating companies and institutions, training employers and employees, and providing guidance and support to Federal agencies. She has already announced that in her role as Acting Chair of the Commission, she intends to reconsider the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) rule, which provides workplace accommodations for abortion.

    Andrea Lucas was confirmed for a second term on the EEOC on July 31, 2025.
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Table of Contents

  1. Top red flags
  2. Statements & policy actions
  3. Extremist connections
Top red flags

Top red flags

  • Used her authority as an EEOC commissioner to launch discrimination probes into companies providing abortion travel benefits after the Dobbs decision. 
  • Voted against and wrote a dissent to the EEOC’s final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which requires workplace accommodations for abortion. 
  • Spoken on multiple panels about religious liberty and gender discrimination which featured speakers from anti-abortion groups Alliance Defending Freedom and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.   
Statements & policy actions

Statements & policy actions

  • During her first term on the EEOC, Lucas voted against the Biden-era final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which interpreted the medical conditions subject to accommodations to include abortion, because she claimed that the rule’s definition of “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” was too broad.
    • She has since announced her intention to reconsider the rule now that she has the position of Acting Chair on the Commission.
  • As a commissioner on the EEOC, Lucas launched multiple discrimination probes into companies providing abortion travel benefits after the Dobbs decision. She claimed that these companies were “discriminating” against individuals who chose not to end pregnancies. 
  • Lucas made disparaging remarks about choosing to freeze your eggs and to not have children while minimizing the importance of combatting gender segregation in the workplace. 
  • Lucas used inflammatory rhetoric about transgender individuals and their rights in the workplace.  
Extremist connections

Extremist connections

  • As an EEOC Commissioner, Lucas sought input directly from anti-abortion groups Alliance Defending Freedom and Family Research Council on the EEOC’s law enforcement priorities. 
  • Lucas spoke on a panel, “Religious Liberty, Government, and the Public Square”, with Matt Bowman from Alliance Defending Freedom and Roger T. Severino from the Ethics and Public Policy Center. 
  • Lucas spoke on a panel, “Sex, Gender, and the Law”, with Erin Hawley from Alliance Defending Freedom. 

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