Barbara Childs Wallace, Of Counsel with Wise Carter Child & Caraway, also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance, an independent agency of the U.S. Congress that regulates and adjudicates employment matters raised by the more than 30,000 employees of the legislative branch.

Ms. Wallace was appointed to this Board beginning in 1999 by the leadership of both parties of the House and Senate. On Tuesday, the Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Congressman Gregg Harper, invited Ms. Wallace to testify in a hearing in Washington concerning sexual harassment training for House employees.