President Donald Trump has tapped Andrea Lucas to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, installing a vocal critic of corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to head an agency that has sway over policy for a vast swath of U.

President Trump has named former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Andrea R. Lucas as Acting Chair of the EEOC, putting her at the top of the an agency charged with “enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race,