Karla Gilbride
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Georgetown University (JD)
Karla Gilbride | |
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| General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | |
| In office October 23, 2023 – January 27, 2025 | |
| President | Joe Biden Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Sharon Fast Gustafson |
| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
Karla Gilbride is an American attorney and civil rights litigator who is the former General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).[1][2] Gilbride is the first individual with a known disability to serve as the General Counsel of the EEOC, and holds the distinction of being the first blind lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court.[3]
Gilbride graduated from Swarthmore College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics in 2002 with highest honors. Her undergraduate thesis was titled, "The Relationship Between Infant-Directed Prosody and Indices of Lexical Acquisition at 15 Months of Age."[4] She then graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2007 with her Juris Doctor.[5]
After law school, Gilbride clerked for Judge Ronald Gould on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Advocacy
Gilbride argued Morgan v. Sundance before the Supreme Court of the United States successfully with the court ruling in Gilbride's client's favor 9–0, overruling the Eighth Circuit.[6][7][8] Slate Magazine described Gilbride's performance as “one of those rare arguments in which you can hear an advocate changing the court's mind in real time.”[9]