Catherine Eschbach was appointed director of the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on March 24, 2025, by Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer. She will leverage her expertise to focus on President Trump’s directives and executive orders, including EO 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
Before her appointment, Eschbach worked for six years in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP’s appellate group focused on complex constitutional, statutory, and administrative law issues. In that role, she spearheaded successful path-making litigation to return the federal government’s practices to its constitutional limits, including issues affecting OFCCP.
An active attorney in Houston’s legal community, Eschbach was appointed by the Texas Supreme Court to its advisory Grievance Oversight Committee and served as the president of the Houston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.
Before joining Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Eschbach served as a judicial law clerk for now-Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge David Hittner of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. She holds a J.D. from the Pepperdine School of Law and a B.S. from Vanderbilt University.