Foreign Service Impasse Disputes Panel Biographies
Sherry Keneson-Hall
Foreign Service Member
Sherry Keneson-Hall, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). She has held a range of senior leadership positions across the Department including Director for Afghanistan Affairs in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (2024–2025), Director of the Office of Press and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (2021–2024), and Fulbright Branch Chief for Europe in ECA (2019-2021). She also served at U.S. Missions in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belgium, and Guinea.
Ms. Keneson-Hall holds a master’s degree from the University of Rhode Island, a bachelor’s degree from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and an associate degree from Ashland Community College in Ashland, Kentucky.
---Sherry Keneson-Hall for a term expiring August 24, 2029.
Anny Vu
Foreign Service Member
Anny Vu is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She currently is the Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of Emerging Threats. Ms. Vu previously served as Charge d’Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Political Chief at the American Institute in Taiwan, Deputy China Coordinator, and as a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. At the White House, she served as Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for International Organizations, Deputy Senior Director for African Affairs, Director for UN and Multilateral Affairs, and Director for China. She also served at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, U.S. Embassy Paris, the Secretary’s Operations Center, and in the Bureaus of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Ms. Vu has an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.A. from the University of California Los Angeles.
---Anny Vu for a term expiring August 24, 2029.
Mark Carter
Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP) Member
Mark Carter previously served for ~10 years as a FSIP Member and subsequently as its Chairman. He is currently a Partner at the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in its Charleston, West Virginia office, where he practices exclusively in the area of labor and employment law and the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Mr. Carter served as Chair of the firm’s Labor Practice Group. He has a national practice focused on advising employers on all aspects of relationships with labor unions. Mr. Carter has advised and represented employers throughout the United States in collective bargaining, arbitrations, and federal litigation involving labor unions, as well as serving employers in employment litigation. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on labor issues. He is a former Management Chairman of the Antitrust, RICO, and Labor Law Committee of the American Bar Association. Mr. Carter has served as an international speaker on labor law, published numerous articles, and written portions of treatises on the subject.
Mr. Carter received a B.A. from The University of Michigan, where he was a Burnett Scholar, and a J.D. from the West Virginia College of Law.
---Mark Carter for a term defined by the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP).
David McFadden
Department of Labor Member
David S. McFadden is a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy. His portfolio includes the regulatory affairs of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Wage and Hour Division, and the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. He has served as a presidential appointee at the Department of Labor in President Donald Trump’s first and second terms and in President George W. Bush’s second term. He was an attorney-advisor, as well as a mediator, at the District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Board for seven years. There he prepared decisions and orders deciding appeals from arbitration awards, exceptions to reports and recommendations of hearing examiners as well as decisions and orders in cases involving impasses, representation, unfair labor practices, negotiability disputes, and other labor-management disputes between the District of Columbia and public employee unions. In addition, Mr. McFadden was an attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the law firm of Gelpi and Associates in New Orleans.
Mr. McFadden received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, a J.D. from the University of Akron, and an LL.M. from Tulane University.
---David McFadden for a term expiring August 24, 2029.
Jim Carter
Public Member
Jim Carter is a Principal and Policy Director at Navigators Global, a Washington-based government relations and strategic communications firm.
Mr. Carter's public service spans both Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Deputy Undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Labor, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Associate Director of the National Economic Council at the White House. While at the Treasury Department, he received the Secretary of the Treasury's Exceptional Service Award, as well as a separate award recognizing his work on the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Mr. Carter also served as a senior staff member on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and as a policy advisor to Senators John Ashcroft, Sam Brownback, and Connie Mack.
Mr. Carter led tax policy implementation for President Donald Trump's 2016–2017 transition team, helping lay the groundwork for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — the first comprehensive reform of the federal tax code in more than three decades.
Previously, Mr. Carter served as Director of the America First Policy Institute's Center for American Prosperity, where he led the center's operations and oversaw research and policy development related to economic growth, tax and budget policy, regulation, international trade, and labor productivity.
Mr. Carter spent a decade at Emerson, a Fortune 200 company at the time and one of America's leading diversified manufacturing and technology firms, where he rose to Vice President of Government Affairs and managed the company's global, federal, and state government affairs operations.
Mr. Carter has authored more than 250 articles on fiscal policy, economics, and public policy, with bylines in leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, Politico, The Hill, The Daily Caller, and USA Today.
A frequent public speaker, Mr. Carter has served as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University and as a lecturer in the Public Management program at Johns Hopkins University, where he received the university's 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award. He also appeared in Season Three of House of Cards, portraying a U.S. senator.
Mr. Carter has served on the boards of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and the National Capital Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, and previously served as President of the Business-Government Relations Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing government understanding of the role of business in national affairs.
Mr. Carter holds degrees from George Mason University and Truman State University.
---Jim Carter for a term expiring August 24, 2029.