Staff
Executive Director
Paula Brantner
Paula Brantner, Executive Director of Workplace Fairness, returns to the organization after serving as its Program Director from 2003 to 2007, writing legal content for the Webby-nominated site www.workplacefairness.org. Most recently, Paula was the Program Director for Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, and the Working America Education Fund. From 1997-2001, she was the senior staff attorney at the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), heading NELA’s amicus, legislative/policy, and judicial nominations programs. An employment lawyer for over 16 years, Brantner has degrees from UC-Hastings College of the Law and Michigan State University’s James Madison College.
Board of Directors
President
Cathy Ventrell-Monsees
Law Offices of Cathy Ventrell-Monsees
Chevy Chase, MD
Vice President
Douglas Scherer
Touro Law Center
Huntington, NY
Secretary
Denise Knecht
Law Office of Denise J. Knecht
Cleveland, OH
Treasurer
Joseph Garrison
Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Chimes & Richardson, P.C.
New Haven, CT
Walt Auvil
Rusen & Auvil, PLLC
Parkersburg, WV
Paula Brantner
Executive Director, Workplace Fairness
Washington, DC
Robert F. Childs
Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, LLC
Birmingham, AL
Dennis Egan
The Popham Law Firm, PC
Kansas City, MO
Frederick Gittes
Gittes & Schulte
Columbus, OH
Diane Gunderson
San Francisco, CA
Jayne E. Hill
Guilford, CT
Carol Martin
Milford, CT
Shireen Mitchell
Digital Sisters, Inc.
Washington, DC
Wayne Outten
Outten & Golden, LLP
New York, NY
Bob Rosner
Workplace 911
Seattle, WA
Immediate Past President
Mary Anne Sedey
Sedey & Harper, P.C.
St. Louis, MO
Darnley D. Stewart
Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart
New York, NY
Founders
Wayne Outten
Outten & Golden, LLP
New York, NY
Paul Tobias
Tobias, Kraus & Torchia
Cincinnati, OH
