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What the Board is made of

The agency has two halves that do not answer to each other. One decides cases. The other decides which cases get brought. Knowing which is which explains most of what looks strange about how a charge moves.

The two halves

The Board. Five seats in Washington. It decides cases that have already been through a region and a hearing. Members are appointed by the President with the Senate's consent, for five year terms. It can sit in panels of three.

The General Counsel. A separate appointment, for four years. Decides which charges become complaints, and prosecutes them. The Board has no say in that decision and cannot overrule it.

Who has held it

Under the General Counsel sit the 26 regional offices, which take the filings, investigate, and run elections. Hearings are held by administrative law judges. A case only reaches the five members in Washington if somebody files exceptions to a judge's decision, which most cases never do.

This split is why the Board's published decisions are a poor picture of what the agency does. They are the small share of cases that were litigated the whole way. Everything else was settled, withdrawn, or dismissed by a region.

Who sits on it now

Member	Seat	Party	Service began	President then in office
David M. Prouty	The Smith seat	Democrat	22 September 2021	Joseph R. Biden Jr.
James R. Macy	The Madden seat	Republican	17 August 2026	Donald J. Trump
Empty	The Carmody seat
James R. Murphy Chairman	The Murdock seat	Republican	7 January 2026	Donald J. Trump
Scott A. Mayer	The Gray seat	Republican	7 January 2026	Donald J. Trump

4 of 5 seats filled, as the Board's own chart had it on 19 September 2026.

The last column is worked out, not quoted The Board records when a member's service began. It never records who appointed them. This site works the appointing President back from the start date, using the House of Representatives' own table of who held the office when. A recess appointment, or a confirmation that lands just after an inauguration, would make that wrong.

Read on

The five seats each expires on a fixed date, whoever is sitting in it Everyone who has served 89 members since 1935 The General Counsel the half that decides what gets prosecuted Why there were three boards 1933, 1934, and the one that lasted

Where this comes from

The Board's own page on who sits on it, and its chart of Board composition since 1935.
The two halves and the five seats: National Labor Relations Act, Section 3, codified at 29 U.S.C. § 153.
Who was President on a given day: the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.

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