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Lisa L. Lahrman
Supervisory Program Specialist
Office of Disability Employment Policy

Lisa L. Lahrman presently serves the Supervisory Program Specialist in charge of the Program Management Division of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), which she joined in July 2001. The Division’s staff of seven program specialists support the over $35 million of ODEP’s $48 million budget that is invested in demonstration pilot projects and mission-supportive contracts that seek to identify promising practices and barriers associated with the employment of both adults and youth with disabilities. Ms. Lahrman serves as the Grant and Contract Officers’ Technical Representative and provides leadership and direction to the Director, Office of Operations, as well as the Office of Policy on grant and contract related matters. Ms. Lahrman is one of nine ODEP senior staff, and represents its interests within the Department of Labor on grant-related Advisory Boards and committees.

Ms. Lahrman has also served as the Deputy Executive Secretary for Operations in the Office of the Secretary from December 1998 through June 2001 where she enhanced the efficient processing and response to over twenty-five thousand pieces of correspondence received yearly for the Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff. She assisted the Executive Secretary with the direction and coordination of the Senior Policy Advisors and Agency Liaison Officers who provide vital policy-neutral links between the front office and agency staff to maximize and facilitate the work of the Department and the priorities of the Secretary.

Ms. Lahrman has been with the Department of Labor since 1983, following graduation from T.C. Williams School of Law in Richmond, Virginia. She has also served as an attorney advisor, in middle level attorney supervisory positions and as the Executive Counsel and Clerk of the Benefits Review Board. Ms. Lahrman was born and raised in Indiana. Following study of music and art education at Indiana University, Ms. Lahrman taught high school in an interdisciplinary magnet school for academically gifted, economically disadvantaged youth in the Richmond Public School System before entering law school.

Ms. Lahrman is married and has two sons.