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By: FEDweek StaffThe Senate has confirmed for a five-year term to head the Office of Special Counsel Hampton Y. Dellinger, whose positions have included Justice Department assistant attorney general overseeing the office of legal policy, deputy attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice and chief legal counsel in the office of the North Carolina Governor.
During the brief consideration on the Senate floor, Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Dellinger “has worked with whistleblowers in both the public and private sector and has advanced policies that protect whistleblower rights” and “is willing to take on powerful interests for the public good and will lead OSC in an independent, nonpartisan way.”
His predecessor, Henry Kerner, who left that position last fall at the end of a one-year holdover period following the expiration of his regular term, has been named to fill the vacant seat on the three-member MSPB governing board that has been vacant since early last year.
That nomination is still awaiting a confirmation vote, as is the nomination of Suzanne Elizabeth Summerlin, formerly with the general counsel’s office of the NFFE union, to be FLRA general; the nomination for another term of current FLRA member Colleen Duffy Kiko; and the nomination of current acting MSPB chair Cathy Harris to hold that position formally.
The FLRA’s three-member governing board also has a vacant seat. Anne Wagner, who is currently Associate Special Counsel at OSC, was nominated by President Biden to the FLRA seat on Jan. 11, 2024.
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