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Since 1998, Bobbie Greene Kilberg has served as President and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), one of the largest technology councils in the nation. In 2001, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) during his term in office.
Kilberg is a graduate of Yale Law School, Columbia University, and Vassar College. Serving as a White House Fellow on the staff of President Nixon’s Domestic Policy Council (1969- 1970), Kilberg got to know John Gardner, a friendship that endured over the years, including a term she served on the board of Common Cause. In 2001, Kilberg eulogized Gardner at his Washington, DC, memorial service.
Kilberg later served as Associate Counsel to President Ford and as Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs for President George H.W. Bush. In the private sector, Kilberg was an attorney with Arnold & Porter, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon College, and Director of the Aspen Institute's Project on the Future of Private Philanthropy.
In Virginia, Kilberg is a member of the Northern Virginia Regional Council of GO Virginia and has served on a number of gubernatorial Task Forces. In 2019, Governor Ralph Northam appointed Kilberg to the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education Commission. Kilberg serves on the Board of Directors of Appian, the American Action Forum, and the NVTC Foundation. She formerly served on the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia and the Boards of Trustees/Directors of the George Washington University, the Potomac School, public television station WETA, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, US Naval Academy, and the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Kilberg has been the recipient of many awards, including induction as a Laureate into the Washington Business Hall of Fame (2013), selection for the Washington Business Journal’s Power 100 (2015, 2017), Washingtonian magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women (2015), and Washingtonian magazine’s 100 Tech Titans of Washington (2015, 2017, 2018).
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William J. Kilberg is a retired senior partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He served on the Executive Committee of the firm from 1996 to 2011, the firm’s five-member Management Committee from 2002 to 2009, and as Partner-in-Charge of the Washington office from 1990 to 1995.
As the most senior partner in the Labor & Employment Law Practice Group, Kilberg counseled and represented clients in all aspects of employee relations, labor relations, and employee compensation and benefits. He appeared numerous times in trial courts on behalf of employers in class and collective actions. He argued many significant matters before eight United States Courts of Appeals and successfully argued two cases before the Supreme Court, Egelhoff v. Egelhoff and Murphy v. UPS.
Kilberg graduated from Cornell University, which he attended on a scholarship from Local 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. As a White House Fellow in 1969-1970, he served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz. In 1973, Kilberg was appointed by President Richard Nixon and unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the Solicitor for the US Department of Labor, the youngest person ever to be appointed to a sub-Cabinet post in the US government. He held the position until 1977. He also served as Associate Solicitor of Labor for Labor Relations and Civil Rights, and General Counsel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Commission on White House Fellowships in 1982. In the course of his involvement with the White House Fellows program, he got to know John Gardner. Kilberg later served as Co-Chair of the National Finance Committee and Chair of the Policy Committee on Labor for the Romney for President campaign.
Lawdragon.com described Kilberg as “the labor lawyer of choice for corporate America,” and “one of the most esteemed employment lawyers in the land.” Both Gibson Dunn’s Labor and Litigation practices were selected as Departments of the Year by American Lawyer in 2012. Washingtonian magazine named him as one of the Top Lawyers in Labor and Employment (2015, 2017). Kilberg was named MVP in employment law for 2011 by Law360, and among the 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys in the nation by Human Resource Executive. He was identified as the Best Employment Litigator in the Washington- metropolitan area by the Washington Business Journal and as one of 100 “superlawyers” by the Washington Post. Chambers Global 2017 recognized Kilberg as a leading lawyer in the area of USA Labour & Employment.
Kilberg served as President of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and was a founder of the Palmer National Bank, now United Bank. He served on the board of The Potomac School, and is the President of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Board of the American Friends of the Hebrew University (AFHU), and serves on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the Chairman of the Board of Vorbeck Materials Corporation. Kilberg is the recipient of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Award for Outstanding Service to the Spanish-speaking community, the DC Chamber of Commerce Arthur Flemming Award for Exceptional Public Service, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Industrial & Labor Relations, and the AFHU Torch of Learning Award.
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