On March 25, 2009, President Obama nominated Washington D.C. attorney Phyllis C. Borzi to serve as assistant secretary of labor for employee benefits security in the Employee Benefit Security Administration, a subdivision of the Department of Labor.

Borzi’s practice focuses on ERISA and employee benefits and is currently of counsel with the law firm of O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP in Washington, D.C. She is also on the faculty of the Department of Health Policy in the George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public Health and Health Services, conducting legal research and policy analysis in the area of employee benefits.

A graduate of Syracuse University and Catholic University Law School, Borzi worked as Pension and Employee Benefits Counsel from 1979 to 1995 for the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has served on a number of health care and employee benefit-related advisory boards, including then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Presidential Task Force on Health Care Reform in 1993, and, in recent years, the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.