Keith E. Sonderling

Keith Sonderling
Official portrait, 2025
38th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor
Assumed office
March 14, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJulie Su
Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Acting
Assumed office
March 20, 2025
Preceded byCyndee Landrum (acting)
Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
In office
September 2020  August 2024
PresidentDonald Trump
Joe Biden
Preceded byCharlotte Burrows
Succeeded byVacant
Vice Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
In office
September 2020  January 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJenny R. Yang
Succeeded byJocelyn Samuels
Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division
Acting
In office
January 2019  April 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byBryan L. Jarrett (acting)
Succeeded byCheryl Stanton
Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division
Deputy
In office
September 2017  September 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byBryan L. Jarrett
Succeeded bySusan Boone
Personal details
Born (1982-11-25) November 25, 1982
New York, New York
Political partyRepublican
SpouseFara Sonderling
Children2
EducationUniversity of Florida (BS)
Nova Southeastern University (JD)

Keith E. Sonderling is an American lawyer and government official. He has served as the 38th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor, the acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and an acting under secretary of United States Department of Commerce since 2025, during President Donald Trump's second term. From 2020 to 2024, he served as commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the deputy and acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor. Before government service, he was a shareholder at the Gunster law firm in West Palm Beach, Florida.