Deryn A. Sumner

Deryn A. Sumner is the Managing Partner of Gilbert Employment Law and Chair of the firm's Federal Sector EEOC Practice Group. She focuses on representing federal employees and agencies before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Her experience includes handling hundreds of employment discrimination cases involving disability, race, age, religion, retaliation, and other protected bases. She also represents employees and agencies in whistleblower retaliation cases and adverse action challenges before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).

Sumner earned her law degree from American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., where she served as a note and comment editor for the Administrative Law Review and co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Society. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Southern California. Sumner has co-authored several books and publications on federal sector employment law, including works on disability discrimination, compensatory damages, EEOC representation, and federal-sector EEO procedures. She previously taught with the Federal Employment Law Training Group and provides training through Gilbert Training Group in coordination with cyberFEDS® for agency representatives, EEO counselors and investigators, and reasonable accommodation coordinators.