Colleen Kiko | |
Office: | Chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority |
President: | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Term Start: | December 11, 2017 |
Term End: | January 21, 2021 |
Predecessor: | Patrick Pizzella (acting) |
Successor: | Ernest W. DuBester |
Office1: | Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority |
President1: | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Term Start1: | December 11, 2017 |
Predecessor1: | Ernest W. DuBester |
Birth Name: | Colleen Margaret Duffy |
Birth Date: | 15 October 1950 |
Birth Place: | Pembina, North Dakota, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Philip Kiko |
Children: | 4 |
Education: | North Dakota State University (BA) Liberty University (JD) |
Colleen Duffy Kiko (born October 15, 1950)[1] is an American attorney and government official who, until January 2021, served as Chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA). Prior to assuming her current role, she was a Judge of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board in the United States Department of Labor.[2] Kiko worked in the predecessor agency to the FLRA and first joined the newly created agency in 1979 in order to investigate unfair labor practices. In 2005, she became general counsel of the FLRA. Kiko has also held various roles in the United States Department of Justice, served as an associate counsel to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, and engaged in the private practice of law.[3]