The White House has announced nine key nominations, including Lisa Gomez for Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security, Department of Labor.
According to Reuters, Gomez is currently a partner at labor law firm Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP where she represents employer and union pension plans. Her nomination is, of course, subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate. If confirmed, she will report to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
She will replace Ali Khawar, who was acting assistant secretary for the EBSA and will remain principal deputy assistant secretary.
Gomez practices primarily in the area of employee benefits law. She represents and advises a federal employee health benefit plan, various multiemployer pension and welfare plans, single employer plans, and jointly administered training program trust funds, as well as plans sponsored by unions for their internal staff. She also advises plans on plan design and administration, benefit claims and fiduciary issues, delinquency collection, participant communications, service provider agreements and qualified domestic relations orders and represents them in various types of litigation.
Her bio on the website notes that she is a member of the International Foundation for Employee Benefit Plans and of the ABA’s Labor and Employment Law Section Committee on Employee Benefits. She previously served as the Union/Employee Co-Chair of the Committee from 2011-2014, and has served as a member of the Programming Committee for the Midwinter Meeting and as co-chair of its Subcommittees on Jointly Administered Plans and Civil Procedure.
Gomez graduated from Fordham University Law School in 1994, where she was an editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, and from Hofstra University in 1991.
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