Biography
Deborah L. Hamilton works as an Assistant Regional Attorney in the Chicago District Office of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she litigates employment discrimination cases in federal district court. While working at the EEOC, Ms. Hamilton was part of the team that litigated EEOC’s sex discrimination case against Mach Mining, in which the Supreme Court resolved the scope of review applicable to the agency’s pre-suit conciliation process. During her years with the agency, Ms. Hamilton has litigated cases ranging from a multi-claimant ADA case against the Supervalu grocery chain, which settled for $3.2 million and resulted in significant changes to the company’s disability accommodation process, to a race based failure to hire case against a Chicago meatpacker. Ms. Hamilton also served on the trial team in EEOC v. Custom Companies, which won a $2.35 million jury verdict for three female sales representatives in a sexual harassment case.
Ms. Hamilton is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her law degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the EEOC, Ms. Hamilton practiced law at Jones Day and served as a law clerk for The Honorable Harry T. Edwards, at the time the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and then for The Honorable Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court during the 1997 Term.