Janel Wright has been with Alaska’ Workers’ Compensation Division since 2004. Initially, she served as a Hearing Officer and was appointed as the Chief of Adjudications in 2008; she served until 2015. She returned to being Hearing Officer and in 2023 was again appointed as Chief of Adjudications. Prior to immersing herself in workers’ compensation… read more

The Honorable Audrey Beach (Wallace) was appointed a Workers’ Compensation Judge in 1995 and presently serves in the Springfield, Delaware County Office of Adjudication. Judge Beach has conducted thousands of voluntary mediations Commonwealth-wide and has served as past co-chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Presently she is a Co-Chair of… read more

Director San Angelo was appointed Director of the Workers’ Compensation Office of Adjudication on December 20, 2024. She became a Workers’ Compensation Judge in May 2012 and Judge Manager of the Southeastern District in March 2018. Director San Angelo is a frequent panelist for the Pennsylvania Bar Association, County Bar Associations, and WCOA Judge’s Conferences…. read more

Judge Johnson was appointed to the Tennessee Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims in 2014. A Past-President of the National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary, she now serves on its Board and chairs the Lunch & Learn and New Judges’ Boot Camp committees. Inducted into the NAWCJ Hall of Fame in 2024, she earned her national… read more

Deputy Commissioner Brooke Anne C. Hunter, hearing judge and mediator with Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission since 2008, earned degrees from University of Virginia and University of Richmond School of Law. After representing Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust in national/international arbitrations, she practiced workers’ compensation. Brooke Anne is a Kids’ Chance of Virginia founding board member, Virginia… read more

Beth DeBernardi is the Senior Administrative Law Judge at the Vermont Department of Labor, where she hears contested workers’ compensation claims. Prior to her ALJ career, Beth represented claimants in workers’ compensation claims from initial injury through administrative hearings, Superior Court trials and Supreme Court appeals. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell… read more

Timothy W. Conner is the presiding judge of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, where he has served since 2014. Judge Conner practiced law for twenty-two years, primarily in workers’ compensation defense. He has taught at Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law since 2017. Judge Conner graduated from Boston University and Wake Forest University… read more

Judge Carlson was appointed to the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals in 2023. Prior to her appointment, she worked in private practice for 30 years exclusively in workers’ compensation, representing injured workers as well as employers and insurers throughout Minnesota. She received her JD, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in… read more

Judge Deb Sundquist has served on the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals since her appointment by Governor Dayton in 2015. Before that, she was an attorney/ shareholder at Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson & Hager, PA. She previously worked as a senior staff attorney for CIGNA Insurance and an associate attorney at the law fi… read more

Jacqueline Blanton Steele graduated with honors from FSU College of Law in 1994. She spent twenty-five years as a defense attorney and shareholder in the law firm of McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Weaver & Stern, PA. In 2020, she was appointed to the county court bench in Manatee County, Florida where she currently serves. Judge Steele chairs… read more

Maureen Quinn is the Chair of the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission, having been appointed by Governor Wes Moore in 2023. She served as a Workers’ Compensation Commissioner from 2002 until her elevation to Chair. Her accomplishments as Chair include enhanced courthouse security, deployment of a new computer system, revamping of the unit that penalizes businesses… read more