Seema Nanda is an American government official who served as the United States solicitor of labor in the Biden administration.

[4][5] Nanda worked as an associate at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle until 2000, when she joined the National Labor Relations Board.

[6][7] She served as a senior trial attorney from 2010 to 2011 and acting deputy special counsel from 2011 to 2013 at the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

[10] Nanda was nominated to become the United States Solicitor of Labor by President Joe Biden on March 26, 2021.

[13][8] On November 6, 2021, it was reported that Nanda defended President Biden's attempt to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate against US workers at businesses with over 100 employees after a federal judge blocked it on the grounds that the plaintiffs' challenge against the mandate raised “grave statutory and constitutional issues.” Nanda asserted that the Department of Labor was “confident in its legal authority” to issue the rule; that Federal law “explicitly gives OSHA the authority to act quickly in an emergency where the agency finds that workers are subjected to a grave danger and a new standard is necessary to protect them"; and that [the US Department of Labor is] "fully prepared to defend this standard in court.”[14]