Chair Andrea Lucas wants to return the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to its roots in the civil rights movement, after previous chairs ignored discrimination that didn’t advance a diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, she says.

“My goal is complete and absolute reform of the agency to go back to principles that were good and right in the early part of the civil rights movement,” Lucas, President Donald Trump’s appointee to the commission, told The Daily Signal.

The EEOC is an executive branch agency created by Congress through Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

While recent chairs have treated the agency as unaccountable to the president, according to Lucas, both the EEOC’s Office of Legal Counsel and the Department of Justice have repeatedly recognized the commission as part of the executive branch.

Lucas described previous chairs as “hypocritical” for governing as if the commission has a will of its own.

“For decades, since the late ’70s when we retained authority over the Age Discrimination........

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