Denise M. Sudell is a senior policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL’s) Civil Rights Center (CRC). She recently returned to that position after more than four years as chief of CRC’s Office of External Enforcement. She originally came to CRC in January 2003, after nearly 15 years as an attorney in DOL’s Office of the Solicitor. During her service with DOL, Ms. Sudell has received a number of honors and awards, including DOL’s Distinguished Career Service Award. She was also DOL’s representative in the February-March 2008 session of the Senior Executive Fellows program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. More recently, she was part of a team that received the Secretary of Labor’s Exceptional Achievement Award in May 2019 for developing and presenting the December 2017 National State-Level Equal Opportunity Officer Training Forum. Ms. Sudell received her Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University School of Law.