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SUZANNE MARRIA: Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge; admitted to California Bar (1985); Golden Gate Univ School of Law Golden Gate University School of Law (J.D., 1983); University of California San Diego (B.A., cum laude, 1975).
Suzanne Marria seved as a Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge and is currently working with the legal unit of the Division of Workers' Compensation.
From June 1999 through August 2002, Ms. Marria served as the Undersecretary/Assistant Director of the Department of Industrial Relations in California. In August 2002 upon creation of the new California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (the 'Labor Agency') and until January 2004, Ms. Marria continued to serve as the Acting Chief Deputy Director for the department, which has state wide jurisdiction for labor standards enforcement (minimum wage, hour and prevailing wage standards), occupational safety and health, workers' compensation, apprenticeship standards, labor statistics and research, and state mediation and conciliation services. DIR is a core part of the California Labor Agency, which also includes the Employment Development Department, the Workforce Investment Board and the Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
Ms. Marria, an attorney by profession, practiced in various parts of the department. She began working in the Legal Unit for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health as a law student in 1981 and continued after law school as a staff attorney handling both civil administrative and criminal matters in the OSHA program. From June 1986 to mid 1988 she was staff counsel to the Workers Compensation Appeals Board; from 1988 to 1990, she worked in house with the Air Transport Employees, Local Lodge 1781 of the International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers, which represented mechanics and ground workers at the United Airlines maintenance and flight facilities in the Bay Area; from 1990 to 1994, she served as staff counsel in the Legal Unit for the director of the Department of Industrial Relations; and from 1994 until her appointment as Assistant Director of the department, she was senior counsel to the Industrial Medical Council which at that time regulated forensic physicians in the California workers compensation system.
Ms. Marria is a graduate of UC San Diego (B.A., cum laude, 1975) and Golden Gate University School of Law (J.D., 1983). She is the author of "Occupational Safety and Health Regulation" in the California Employment Law, Matthew Bender, and co-authored, "California Passes Workers? Compensation Reform: Implementation is the Next Challenge", Workers? Compensation Policy Review, July/August 2002.
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