Lauren McFerran is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, having previously served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during the Biden administration, from 2021 to 2024. She served as a member of the NLRB from December 2014 to December 2019 and from July 2020 to January 2021. Prior to her appointment to the NLRB, McFerran served the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions as deputy staff director to Chairman Tom Harkin and previously as senior labor counsel to Senator Ted Kennedy. Before her work in the United States Senate, McFerran was an associate at Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC and served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Carolyn Dineen King on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. McFerran received a BA from Rice University and a JD from Yale Law School.
