Phyllis Borzi J.D., M.A.

From 2009 to January 2017, Ms. Borzi served as the assistant secretary of labor of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), overseeing nearly 681,000 private sector retirement plans, approximately 2.3 million health plans and approximately the same number of other welfare benefit plans that provide benefits to approximately 143 million Americans. As agency head, she oversaw the administration, regulation and enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Previously, Ms. Borzi was a research professor in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services. She was also counsel with the Washington, D.C. law firm of O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP, specializing in ERISA and other legal issues affecting employee benefit plans. From 1979 to 1995, Ms. Borzi served as pension and employee benefit counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor. In 1993, she served on working groups dealing with insurance reform, workers’ compensation and employer coverage in connection with the Clinton Task Force on Health Care Reform. Ms. Borzi is a charter member and former president of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel and served on its board of governors from 2000 to 2008; former member and co-chair of the advisory board of the BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter; former member of the advisory committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; former member of the advisory board of the Pension Research Council, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and former member of the board of the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER). Ms. Borzi also served as an Advisory Director on the International Foundation Board and has recently been reappointed as a member of the Government Liaison Committee. In 2008, she was appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and served as a public member of the administrative committee for the Goodyear retiree health trust until her confirmation by the U.S. Senate for her DOL EBSA position. Ms. Borzi holds a master of arts degree in English from Syracuse University and a J.D. degree from Catholic University Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court.