Fred B. Jacob

Fred B. Jacob is the Solicitor of the National Labor Relations Board.  As Solicitor, Mr. Jacob serves as the Board’s chief legal adviser on questions of law regarding the Board’s operations and the adjudication of NLRB cases in the federal courts. From 1997 to 2014, he worked in offices throughout the NLRB, primarily as an attorney, supervisor, and Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Branch. 

Prior to his appointment as the NLRB's Solicitor, Mr. Jacob spent four years as Solicitor of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he represented the FLRA before all federal courts, advised FLRA components on legal issues arising under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, and served as the FLRA’s in-house counsel.  He also clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, worked in private practice, and began his career as a summer intern in the Legal Affairs Department of DC Comics.

Mr. Jacob’s articles on labor and administrative law have appeared in the Boston College Law Review, the U.C. Law Journal, the St. John’s University Law Review, and the Green Bag (An Entertaining Journal of Law).  Previously, he taught labor and employment law courses at Georgetown University Law Center and the College of William and Mary. 

Mr. Jacob received his BA from Brandeis University and his JD from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.