Sharon Rennert
Senior Attorney Advisor
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Sharon Rennert is the senior member of the EEOC's ADA Division, having joined in January 1992. During 2003, she served as Acting Director of the Division. Ms. Rennert develops Commission policy interpretations of the ADA and has worked on every ADA policy guidance issued by the Commission. She also has worked on many of the Commission's ADA technical assistance documents, including drafting fact sheets on telework as a reasonable accommodation, reasonable accommodations for attorneys, and the ADA's application to job seekers. Ms. Rennert was the key drafter of the EEOC's guidance on reasonable accommodation and offers particular expertise on this central ADA requirement. She also specializes in providing employers with practical approaches to ADA compliance.

From 1988 to 1991, Ms. Rennert served as Associate Staff Director of the American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. Prior to that, she was Assistant Director of Government Liaison for the Epilepsy Foundation of America. Ms. Rennert received her law degree, with honors, from New York University School of Law.