Law Partner Noyes T. Powers; Served as EEOC's First Director

The Washington Post | February 6, 2007| | Copyright

Noyes Thompson Powers, 77, who served temporarily as the first executive director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and later was a managing partner with the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, died Jan. 29 at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif. He had Lewy body disease, a form of dementia. The Penn Valley, Calif., resident had lived previously in Chevy Chase.

In 1961, Mr. Powers joined the U.S. Labor Department as deputy solicitor and as special assistant to Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz. Harvard law professor Archibald Cox recommended Mr. Powers for the ...

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