Peeler briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2022: Battling Artificial Intelligence Bias. 

Raymond Peeler is a long-serving civil rights attorney with over 20 years of experience at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has testified at EEOC Commission Meetings on several topics and delivered outreach and training to internal and external stakeholders. He was recently selected as an Associate Legal Counsel and member of the Senior Executive Service, reporting directly to the EEOC’s Legal Counsel in the office responsible for developing and maintaining the agency’s regulations and policies on EEOC-enforced laws, and serving as the agency’s in-house counsel.

Peeler previously worked as the Assistant Legal Counsel for the Coordination and Age Discrimination Division in the Office of Legal Counsel, where he was responsible for the agency’s Age Discrimination in Employment Act policies, and for working with other federal agencies on matters of mutual concern.  Mr. Peeler also spent time as a Special Assistant to former Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic (R) and former EEOC Chair Jenny Yang (D). For most of his time at EEOC, Peeler worked as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Title VII, Equal Pay, and Age Division.  Ray’s federal service began in the EEOC Office of Federal Operations’ Appellate Review Program, where he drafted administrative appellate decisions on federal employee discrimination claims and helped develop and deliver training materials to federal employee audiences.

Peeler is a past Government Fellow of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section (EEO Committee). He contributed to the “Federal Employee Litigation” chapter of the Bureau of National Affairs reference book Employment Discrimination Law, (Lindemann, Grossman, & Weirich, eds., BNA 5^th ed., 2012), and its 2013-15 supplements.

He earned a B.A. from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, with double majors in History and German and graduated from Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, GA, where he was a member of the Law Review Editorial Board.