The increase in the number of women joining the ranks of police forces has grown significantly over the past three decades. With that growth has come a new challenge, namely, how and whether police departments must accommodate pregnant police officers under civil rights statutes, including the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Many female police officers who have been denied reasonable accommodations due to their pregnancies have sued claiming discrimination, with varying results. This panel will explore the legal arguments for and against providing reasonable accommodations to pregnant police officers, and the policy and real-world ramifications of those decisions for both the affected women and the public-at-large. Panelists: Colonel Deborah Campbell, New York State Police Karen Kruger (WCL LLM in Law & Government, ’06), Partner, Funk & Bolton P.A. Margaret Moore, Executive Director, National Center for Women & Policing Gillian Thomas, Trial Attorney, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Karen Woodard, Deputy Chief, Employment Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice Moderator: Professor Bill Yeomans, Fellow in Law & Government, WCL, Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights