Milton L. Chappell


Staff Attorney (1976-present)

Experience: Foundation Law Clerk, 1975-76; Legal Intern, Counsel for the Columbia Union Confer­ence Association of Seventh-day Adventists, Takoma Park, MD, 1974-75.

Bar Admissions: Maryland, 1976; District of Columbia, 1977; U.S. Supreme Court, 1980 (admitted only in MD & DC).

Law School: Catholic University, J.D., 1976.

College: Washington Adventist University, B.A., Sociology/Political Science, summa cum laude, 1972.

Member: Federalist Society.

Publications: “Protecting the Rights of State Employees Against Compulsory Unionism,” California Public Employee Relations, No. 143 (Aug. 2000); “Legislative and Practical Alternatives to the Current Monopoly Bargaining Model That Will Enhance the Viability of Independent Teacher Groups,” Government Union Review, Summer 1995, at 1; “From Abood to Tierney: The Protection of Nonunion Employees in an Agency Shop: You’ve Come a Long Way,” 15 Ohio Northern University Law Review 1 (1988).

Reported Cases (partial listing): Davenport v. Washington Education Association, 551 U.S. 177 (2007); Otto v. Pennsylvania State Education Ass’n, 330 F.3d 125 (3d Cir. 2003); Damiano v. Matish, 830 F.2d 1363 (6th Cir. 1987); Swanson v. University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, 269 F. Supp. 2d 1252 (D. Hawaii 2003); Leer v. Washington Education Ass’n., 172 F.R.D. 439 (W.D. Wash. 1997); George v. Baltimore City Public Schools, 117 F.R.D. 368 (D. Md. 1987); FEC v. NEA, 457 F. Supp. 1102 (D.D.C. 1978); Elvin v. Oregon Public Employees Union, 832 P.2d 26 (Or. 1992); Albro v. Indianapolis Educ. Ass’n, 585 N.E.2d 666 (Ind.App.), aff’d sum nom., Fort Wayne Educ. Ass’n v. Aldrich, 594 N.E.2d 781 (Ind. 1992); Ball v. City of Detroit, 84 Mich. App. 383, 269 N.W.2d 607 (1978); Marceau v. International Broth. of Elec. Workers, 618 F.Supp.2d 1127 (D. Ariz. 2009); Wilson v. NLRB, 920 F.2d 1282 (6th Cir. 1990).