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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release November 10, 1999

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES CAROL WALLER POPE AS MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL LABOR

RELATIONS AUTHORITY

The President today announced his intent to nominate Carol Waller Pope as a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

Ms. Carol Waller Pope, of Washington D.C., has worked at the Federal Labor Relations Authority for nineteen years. Since 1996, Ms. Pope has served as Assistant General Counsel for Appeals in the Office of the General Counsel, a component of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Prior to that, she served as Executive Assistant to the General Counsel. From 1980 to 1994 she was an attorney in the Boston Regional Office of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Ms. Pope began her Federal career in 1979 as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Simmons College and the Board of Directors of the Lower Roxbury/Madison Park Development Corporation.

Ms. Waller Pope received a B.A. degree from Simmons College and a J.D. degree from the Northeastern University School of Law.

The Federal Labor Relations Authority administers the labor-management relations program for non-Postal Service Federal employees worldwide. The agency administers the statute which protects the rights of federal employees to organize, to bargain collectively and to participate through labor organizations of their own choosing in identifying and resolving workplace disputes. The Federal Labor Relations Authority ensures compliance with the statutory rights and obligations of Federal agencies, unions and employees and also provides leadership in establishing policies and guidance related to Federal sector labor-management relations.

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