Nomination of Jerry M. Hunter To Be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board

The President today nominated Jerry M. Hunter to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board for a term of 4 years. He would succeed Rosemary M. Collyer.

Since 1986 Mr. Hunter has served as the director of the Missouri State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Mr. Hunter served as labor counsel for the Kellwood Co., St. Louis, MO. He served with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in St. Louis as a senior trial attorney, 1980 - 1981, and as a trial attorney, 1979 - 1980. Mr. Hunter was a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in St. Louis, 1977 - 1979.

Mr. Hunter graduated from the University of Arkansas (B.A., 1974) and the Washington University School of Law (J.D., 1977). He was born July 5, 1952, is married, and currently resides in Jefferson City, MO.