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Senior Counsel Courtney J. Mickman represents clients in cases involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and other employment matters.
Prior to joining Alan Lescht and Associates, P.C., Courtney was an Administrative Judge in the Hearings Unit of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Washington Field Office. As an EEOC Administrative Judge, Courtney presided over and adjudicated hundreds of discrimination complaints filed by federal employees and applicants. In addition, she served as a settlement judge for dozens of federal discrimination cases. Courtney has developed training materials and provided both internal training for EEOC Administrative Judges nation-wide, as well as external training for attorneys on both sides of the bar, EEO specialists, and human resources representatives at various conferences, including EEOC Excel and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association’s annual conference. Most recently, she was selected for a detail to the EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations (OFO) Appellate Review Division, where she wrote decisions on appeals of final agency decisions (FADs).
Before her experience at the EEOC, Courtney worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., primarily representing complainants and appellants in litigation before the EEOC and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). She also provided counsel to federal employees in connection with Office of Personnel Management (OPM) disability retirement applications, whistleblower and protected disclosure complaints with the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), and reasonable accommodation requests.
Courtney earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from The George Washington University, where she served as a Research Assistant on a study of sex discrimination in employment during the hiring process. Courtney went on to earn a J.D. from The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, where she served as a Senior Editor for the Law Review. She worked as a Student Attorney in the Low-Income Tax Clinic and the Community Development Legal Clinic, performing 750 hours of pro bono hours in each clinic. She was also a Teaching Assistant for Torts I and Torts II, as well as a Research Assistant for the Professor of the Low-Income Tax Clinic.
Courtney is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia. In February 2025, Courtney was appointed to the Hearing Committee of the D.C. Bar’s Board of Professional Responsibility for a three-year term. She has written numerous articles for the American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law News.
