Jenny R. Yang

Jenny Rae Yang (born 1970/1971) is an American attorney and public official. In 2021, Yang was appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as the Director of Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, an agency within the Department of Labor.

Prior to this, Yang served as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from 2012 to 2017, and led the commission as chair from 2014 to 2017.

Early life and education Yang grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, where she attended Livingston High School and played on the tennis team. Yang has a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law.

Legal career Yang clerked for Edmund V. Ludwig at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Yang was appointed to a position on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency tasked with enforcing civil laws against workplace discrimination, by President Barack Obama on August 2, 2012.

In 2014, Yang was chosen to succeed Jacqueline A. Berrien as Chair of the EEOC. She was succeeded as chair by acting chair Victoria Lipnic and left the commission on January 3, 2018. During Yang's time as chair, the EEOC established a Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace to address workplace sexual harassment.

Post-EEOC career Yang served as a Leadership in Government Fellow at the Open Society Foundations from January 8, 2018, to July 2019. She testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on best practices in preventing sexual harassment in the federal courts.

In 2019, Yang was mentioned by liberal group Demand Justice as one of their recommended Supreme Court nominees.

In 2020, Yang testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor, where she advocated for what she describes as a "Workers' Bill of Rights for Algorithmic Decisions" to regulate algorithmic employment decisions.

Department of Labor In November 2020, Yang was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the Department of Labor. Upon Biden's inauguration, Yang was appointed to serve as Director of Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) at the Department of Labor. Yang as featured speaker at the Department of Justice's 2015 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Program.

Personal life Yang is married to Kil Huh, also a graduate of Cornell, NYU and Columbia University. The couple have two sons.