WASHINGTON — Janet Dhillon was sworn in as the 17th director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on November 3, 2025.
“I am privileged to serve as the PBGC’s director and committed to ensuring PBGC achieves operational excellence and transparency,” Dhillon said. “I look forward to leading the agency in its mission to protect the retirement security of millions of American workers, retirees, and beneficiaries whose pensions are insured by PBGC.”
Dhillon succeeds Gordon Hartogensis, who served as director from May 2019 to April 2024.
Dhillon previously served as acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration.
From May 2019 to November 2022, Dhillon was a commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and served as its chair from May 2019 to January 2021.
Outside of government, Dhillon served as the general counsel of several Fortune 500 companies, including US Airways Group, Inc., JC Penney Company, Inc., Burlington Stores, Inc. and Dollar Tree, Inc. She began her legal career at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Dhillon earned her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Occidental College in Los Angeles.
About PBGC
PBGC protects the retirement security of about 31 million American workers, retirees, and beneficiaries in both single-employer and multiemployer private sector pension plans. The agency’s two insurance programs are legally separate and operationally and financially independent. PBGC is directly responsible for the benefits of nearly 1.4 million participants and beneficiaries in failed single-employer pension plans. The Single-Employer Program is financed by insurance premiums, investment income, and assets and recoveries from failed single-employer plans. The Multiemployer Program is financed by insurance premiums and investment income. Special financial assistance for financially troubled multiemployer plans is financed by general taxpayer monies.