Angelia Wade
Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
Angelia Wade is an associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC. She is the first African American woman associate general counsel at the Federation. Her work at the Federation focuses on voting rights and protections, federal sector labor law, workplace safety and diversity issues. Prior to the AFL-CIO, Angelia was an attorney at the American Federation of Government Employees, where for five years she represented union members in arbitration, settlement and before the Federal Labor Relations Authority and the Merit System Protection Board. She was very successful in wining cases and generated tens of thousands of attorney fees for the labor organization. One of her cases, against the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, was highlighted in USA today and reported in several other newspapers in late 2006. In addition to representing employees, Ms. Wade taught sessions on arbitration procedures, legal research and writing and grievance preparation at several AFGE regional meetings. Ms. Wade also served a public defender for Baltimore City and clerked for Judges in! the U.S . Virgin Islands, St. Croix and Baltimore. In 2008, Angelia was named a fellow in the Maryland State Bar Association Leadership Academy, a one-year program designed to prepare attorneys for future leadership roles in their bar association and legal profession. The fellow's 2008 project, suggested by Ms. Wade, centered on shedding light on the difficulties and resources available to offenders reentering society. Ms. Wade is a member of GWAC, the Greater Washington Area Chapter Women Lawyers Division, National Bar Association. Angelia is currently active in District of Columbia Bar, International Law Section and recently helped present a panel on Human Trafficking. In addition, she is active on the American Bar Association, International Section's Africa Committee and two committees of the Labor and Employment Law section of the ABA, one of which she serves as a co-chair. In the past year she has co- presented at two ABA conferences speaking in November 2010 on Liberty and Justice for All: What's Hot in 2010 in Federal Sector Personnel and Labor Law and in March 2011 on Steering Your Clients through Troubled Waters: Privacy Issues in the Modern Workplace. In 2009, Ms. Wade was a co-presenter at the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee Union Lawyers conference on Preparing witnesses for arbitration. Angelia is active in her community. She is a board member of Servants Without Borders and a volunteer with the DC family and youth initiative, which seeks to provide mentors and permanent homes to older children in foster care. Additionally, she has been active in Street Law. Angelia also served as vice-president of the Congressional Black Caucus Alumni Association in the early 2000s after interning in the office of Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in 1996. She is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana and The George Washington University Law School. Angelia, a Houston, Texas native, is licensed to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, as well as before the US Supreme Court.
