Charles Hobbie:
CLASS OF 1959
Frederick Law Olmsted Middle School 56Class of 1959
Buffalo, NY
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Biography for Charles (ÂChuckÂ) Hobbie
Chuck Hobbie is the Associate General Counsel of the United States Peace Corps. He handles personnel law, equal employment opportunity matters, and labor relations for Peace Corps. Previously, he was Deputy General Counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. He was AFGE'Âs staff counsel for six years before becoming Deputy General Counsel in 1985. Prior to joining AFGE, Chuck was a Foreign Service Reserve officer on Peace Corps headquarters staff in Washington from 1972  1978, where he was the Country Desk Officer for Korea and Thailand. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea from 1968 to 1971, he taught at Kyungpook National University in Taegu, Korea, worked on building a rural health clinic on Koje Island, and later trained Peace Corps volunteers at the School for International Training in Putney, Vermont.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Chuck has a M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from the National Law Center, George Washington University. He grew up in Buffalo, New York. He has been a member of the American Bar Association for over 30 years, was the Union Chair of the AssociationÂ's Standing Committee on Federal Service Labor and Employment Law, and was a memb...Expand for more
er of the AFL-CIO'Âs Lawyers Coordinating Committee for almost 25 years.
As AFGEÂ's Deputy General Counsel, with the General Counsel he supervised 24 attorneys engaged primarily in federal sector personnel and labor relations litigation and is responsible for the legal aspects of AFGE'Âs internal labor relations, as well as CSRA and LMRDA standards of conduct compliance. During his career at AFGE he represented the union and its members in hundreds of cases before the Merit Systems Protection Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Department of Labor, and arbitrators, and in more than two hundred judicial cases before virtually every U.S. Court of Appeals, six U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court, where he argued as counsel of record in the seminal federal sector arbitration case, Cornelius v. Nutt.
Chuck has been married for over thirty-six years to Young Ei Shin, who retired in 2009 from her position as an occupational health nurse at the U.S. Dept. of AgricultureÂs Medical Unit in Washington, and they have two children: Jason, a graduate of the U. of Virginia and of the William and Mary College of Law, and Amy, a graduate of Williams College and of the School of International Public health at the University of North Carolina. They live in Falls Church, Virginia.
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