Dennis P. Walsh

Dennis P. Walsh was named Director of Region 4 in March 2013. He had served as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority since 2009. Previously, Mr. Walsh had a distinguished career with the Board, during which he performed nearly every aspect of the Board’s work from field attorney to Board member. Mr. Walsh served as a Member of the NLRB on three occasions: January 2006 to December 2007, December 2002 to December 2004, and December 2000 to December 2001. He also served as a Special Assistant in the Division of Enforcement, Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the General Counsel’s Division of Operations, Chief Counsel to both Member Wilma Liebman (1997-2000) and Member Margaret A. Browning (1994-1997), and Counsel to Member Patricia Diaz Dennis. Mr. Walsh began his legal career in 1984 as an NLRB attorney in the Office of Representation Appeals, and continued to work for various NLRB offices, including the Appellate Court Branch and Region 4.

From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Walsh engaged in the private practice of law in Philadelphia. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Labor Law at Howard University School of Law. Mr. Walsh is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review, and a 1976 summa cum laude graduate of Hamilton College.