U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Naomi C. Earp is chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that is charged with enforcing federal laws that prohibit employment discrimination. As chair, Earp is chief executive officer of the commission, which is comprised of 2,200 workers nationwide in 53 field offices and in the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

She oversees a budget of $330 million and serves as a member of the five-person commission. Before her appointment as chair, she served as vice chair of the EEOC. In that position, she created and launched the Youth@ Work Initiative, a national education and outreach campaign designed to promote equal employment opportunities for young workers. Before the EEOC, Earp worked at the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She also served as an attorney advisor at the EEOC during the mid-1980s. Earp earned a law degree from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C, a master's from Indiana University in Bloomington, and a bachelor's from Norfolk State University. She resides in Montgomery County in Maryland.