Mindy Landow Named Associate Chief Administrative Law Judge in New York

Washington, D.C. -- The National Labor Relations Board today announced the appointment of Judge Mindy Landow as Associate Chief Administrative Law Judge in charge of the New York office of Judges. She will assume her new position upon the retirement of long-time Associate Chief Judge Joel Biblowitz on January 2, 2017.  In that position, Judge Landow will handle the administration of the New York office, including ruling on pre-trial motions, docketing cases, and assigning them to particular judges.
Judge Landow has been a judge with the NLRB for 11 years, after serving as an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration. Before her appointment as a Social Security judge, she served as a trial attorney in Region 2 of the Board for 15 years. She was also in the private practice of law in New York City.  Judge Landow received her B.A. degree from the State University of New York in Binghamton and her J.D. degree from New York University.
The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency charged with safeguarding employee rights to organize or not and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.
The Division of Judges, which has offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, and San Francisco, is responsible for docketing unfair labor practice cases brought by the Board’s General Counsel on charges filed by unions, employers and individual employees. The Judges Division disposes of those cases, either by settlement or by conducting trials and issuing initial decisions, which may then be appealed to the five-member Board and thereafter to an appropriate United States Court of Appeals.