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Cheryl M. Stanton is Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer at BrightStar Care. Prior to joining BrightStar Care, she served as Administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. She was sworn in as WHD’s Administrator by U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta on April 29, 2019.
Stanton brought a wealth of experience to WHD, most recently having served as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. Under her leadership, South Carolina’s jobless rate dropped to its lowest point in at least 50 years. During that time period, South Carolina’s workforce system helped place over 500,000 South Carolinians into jobs. Stanton also partnered with her colleague at the Department of Corrections to create a job re-entry program for ex-offenders, receiving national accolades. She also oversaw two major information technology modernization projects that improved customer service and increased efficiencies for employees.
Stanton served as the White House’s principal legal liaison to the DOL under President George W. Bush. She is a graduate of Williams College, and earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Vice President of Legal Affairs, Landmark Legal Foundation
Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer, BrightStar Care
Cheryl M. Stanton is Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer at BrightStar Care. Prior to joining BrightStar Care, she served as Administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. She was sworn in as WHD’s Administrator by U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta on April 29, 2019.
Stanton brought a wealth of experience to WHD, most recently having served as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. Under her leadership, South Carolina’s jobless rate dropped to its lowest point in at least 50 years. During that time period, South Carolina’s workforce system helped place over 500,000 South Carolinians into jobs. Stanton also partnered with her colleague at the Department of Corrections to create a job re-entry program for ex-offenders, receiving national accolades. She also oversaw two major information technology modernization projects that improved customer service and increased efficiencies for employees.
Stanton served as the White House’s principal legal liaison to the DOL under President George W. Bush. She is a graduate of Williams College, and earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Vice President of Legal Affairs, Landmark Legal Foundation
Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer, BrightStar Care
Cheryl M. Stanton is Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer at BrightStar Care. Prior to joining BrightStar Care, she served as Administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. She was sworn in as WHD’s Administrator by U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta on April 29, 2019.
Stanton brought a wealth of experience to WHD, most recently having served as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. Under her leadership, South Carolina’s jobless rate dropped to its lowest point in at least 50 years. During that time period, South Carolina’s workforce system helped place over 500,000 South Carolinians into jobs. Stanton also partnered with her colleague at the Department of Corrections to create a job re-entry program for ex-offenders, receiving national accolades. She also oversaw two major information technology modernization projects that improved customer service and increased efficiencies for employees.
Stanton served as the White House’s principal legal liaison to the DOL under President George W. Bush. She is a graduate of Williams College, and earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
General Counsel and Senior Advisor, White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud
Jason Manion has high-level legal experience in all three branches of federal government, in Ohio state government, and in private practice.
Since January 20, 2025, Jason has served in senior legal roles in the Trump-Vance Administration. He currently serves as General Counsel and Senior Advisor for the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within federal benefit programs.
Before joining the White House, Jason served as part of the senior leadership team at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was Counselor to the Attorney General and Counselor and Chief of Staff to the Associate Attorney General. At the Justice Department, he oversaw a broad portfolio that included matters and issues arising out of the Civil, Civil Rights, Criminal, and National Security Divisions.
Previously, Jason was an award-winning federal prosecutor and accomplished appellate attorney. He worked as an appellate Assistant United States Attorney, a deputy Ohio solicitor general, and an appellate associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In these various roles, he handled dozens of civil and criminal appeals (primarily in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Ohio Supreme Court) and presented eighteen oral arguments (in the Sixth Circuit, the D.C. Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, and federal district courts in Ohio and D.C.).
Jason has also worked on the confirmations of several of President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Branch and judicial nominees, including serving on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary as Special Counsel to Senator Ted Cruz for the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Jason graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for two Ohio-based Sixth Circuit judges, Judges Alice M. Batchelder and Eric E. Murphy. He has been an active member of the Federalist Society since law school and has served in multiple leadership roles in the Society.
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