Chairperson Katy Lounsbury has practiced labor and employment law, representing employers, employees, labor unions and LIRC in cases involving equal rights, worker's compensation, unfair labor practices, contract grievances, long and short term disability claims, and unpaid wage disputes for a quarter of a century. Lounsbury was a partner in private practice with Hawks, Quindel, Ehlke & Perry, and later with Ehlke, Bero-Lehmann, & Lounsbury for nearly 20 years, and more recently served as an attorney for the commission. Originally from Iowa, she graduated from Iowa State University and the University of Iowa College of Law.

Commissioner Michael Gillick was a partner in the firm of Gillick, Wicht, Gillick & Graf. That firm has, for almost seventy years, represented injured workers in worker’s compensation and related claims. Mr. Gillick has a J.D. from Marquette University Law School, where he was the editor in chief of the Law Review. He has lectured and published on worker’s compensation in Wisconsin and elsewhere. He also holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. His area of expertise is the foundation of morality, and he has lectured and published on that subject in the United States and elsewhere. He is an ethics judge for BBB’s ethics award program

Commissioner Marilyn Townsend was a lawyer in private practice, and served in local government for more than thirty years prior to her appointment. She was born and raised near the city of Merrill in northern Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism, and earned her law degree from the Potomac School of Law in Washington, D.C. As a lawyer, her practice emphasized the representation of employees with job related issues. In 2017, she won a unanimous decision from the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Chief Justice Roggensack concerning the unemployment compensation law. Operton v. LIRC, 2017 WI 46, 375 Wis. 2d 1. She served for six years as the Municipal Court Judge of the Village of Shorewood Hills. Prior to her election as Judge, she served for twelve years as a member of the Village Board of Trustees. In 2018, Ms. Townsend received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dane County Bar Association for her pro bono service. She was also honored in 2018 with a Woman in the Law Award by the Wisconsin Law Journal.