Janet Dhillon

At a glance

Janet Dhillon’s PBGC biography describes labor and employment agency leadership and corporate legal work before her pension-insurance appointment. The agency records her swearing-in as its seventeenth director on November 3, 2025.

Summary sources: [1] [2]

Career and documented accomplishments

• Dhillon served as an EEOC commissioner from May 2019 to November 2022 and chaired it from May 2019 to January 2021. She later held acting assistant-secretary and principal deputy roles in the Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration. [1]
• Her private-sector roles included general counsel at US Airways, JC Penney, Burlington Stores and Dollar Tree, following thirteen years at Skadden. She graduated from Occidental College and UCLA School of Law. [1]

Role and nomination context

• PBGC insures private-sector defined-benefit pensions through separate single-employer and multiemployer programs. The swearing-in announcement describes that retirement-security mission, rather than attributing all agency results to the incoming director. [2]

Sources and review date

Career and role sources reviewed Oct 14, 2026. These sources may describe developments beyond the nomination snapshot; each nomination entry retains its recorded date and outcome.

1. Director — Janet Dhillon

   Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Reviewed Oct 14, 2026.

2. Janet Dhillon sworn in as PBGC director

   Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Reviewed Oct 14, 2026.