Gwynne A. Wilcox is an American attorney who was a member and chairman of the National Labor Relations Board until January 27, 2025.
Wilcox obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University and a Juris Doctor from the Rutgers Law School.
[11] Trump's firing of Wilcox and Jennifer Abruzzo is reported to paralyze the Labor Board, which now lacks the three-member quorum it needs to decide cases that come before it.
The U.S. Supreme Court holding Morrison v. Olson states that Congress provides tenure protections to certain inferior officers with narrowly defined duties, like the NLRB, from being fired except with good cause.
[15][16] Wilcox's firing also explicitly contradicted a federal statute which provides that members of the NLRB "may be removed by the President, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.