Gerald M. Etchingham

Judge Etchingham has been an administrative law judge in San Francisco since January 2011. He is the former Associate Chief Judge at SF Judges at the NLRB from 2013-January 2024, and he was a federal ALJ at the Office of Administrative Law Judges/DOL for 8 years before transferring to the NLRB in late December 2010. In that capacity, he primarily decided and mediated cases under the Longshore & Harbor Workers Compensation Act and various whistleblower statutes. Prior to that position, he served less than a year as a judge with SSA. He previously spent 15 years in private practice, specializing in commercial litigation, federal labor law, and bankruptcy. He is a CPA and also taught employment and business law courses. A native of the Chicagoland NW suburbs, he obtained his B.S. degree from Augustana College in the Quad Cities and his J.D. degree from the University of California College of the Law- San Francisco.