Lisa Gomez has been confirmed as Assistant Secretary of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor May 25 by the U.S. Senate.
Gomez will oversee the Employee Benefits Security Administration in her new role and will succeed Ali Khawar, who has worked as EBSA's interim assistant secretary as of March 2020, according to a PlanAdvisor report.
“We don’t know what her priorities will be until after she gets confirmed,” Jason Berkowitz, chief legal and regulatory affairs officer at the Insured Retirement Institute stated, according to PlanAdvisor. “There’s a lot for her to wrap her head around. We look forward to meeting with her and working with her.”
The U.S. Senate noted the vote to confirm Gomez was On the Cloture Motion, or a vote to end the current confirmation process. There were 47 senators who voted in favor of Gomez's confirmation and 46 against it, while seven senators abstained.
Prior to her confirmation, Gomez worked as a partner at the labor law firm Cohen Weiss and Simon, according to PlanAdvisor. Her professional experience includes unions, labor, multi-employer pension and welfare plans and employee benefits issues.
