Des Moines, IA – The Iowa Division of Workers’ Compensation recently announced that Joseph L. Walsh has been hired as a Deputy Workers’ Compensation Commissioner with the Division. He commenced his duties with the division on January 17, 2014.
Mr. Walsh has previously been in private practice as a workers’ compensation and employment law attorney in Des Moines, Iowa and has served as the Deputy Director of Iowa Workforce Development from 2007 to 2010.
Mr. Walsh most recently held the position of Chief Administrative Law Judge for Iowa’s Division of Unemployment Insurance Appeals. Mr. Walsh is a 1993 graduate of Drake University with Cum Laude Honors and a 1996 graduate with Honors of the Drake University School of Law.
The hiring process has commenced for the division’s second open deputy commissioner position. An announcement of hiring for this second position is expected in mid-February 2014.
Source: IA DWC