About NLRB

Paul Murphy was appointed Regional Director of the Buffalo Regional Office (Region 3) in 2017. He began his career with the National Labor Relations Board as a co-op Field Examiner in Cleveland (Region 8) in 1979 and returned there as a full-time employee in 1980. He transferred to Region 3 in 1982. He was promoted to Supervisory Examiner in 1997 and Region 3's Assistant to the Regional Director in 2007.

Patricia Nachand was named Regional Director for the Region 25 Office in Indianapolis in March 2016. A native of the Indianapolis, Indiana area, Ms. Nachand received her B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Indianapolis in 1983 and 1997, respectively. She began her Field Examiner career in the Indianapolis office in 1981 after first working for the Agency as a receptionist, stenographer, and labor-management relations aide while attending college at night.

Judge Fine was appointed in March of 1999. He previously worked for 18 years (1979–1997) as an NLRB trial attorney, trial specialist, and supervisor in the Baltimore Regional Office, during which period he also spent time in Operations Management. Before that he worked for 2 years at the NLRB headquarters in the General Counsel’s Office of Appeals (1977–1979). He was the General Counsel's lead counsel in the National Football League case, an approximately 100 day trial resulting from the 1987 players strike.