Teague Paterson

Teague Paterson is General Counsel of AFSCME—the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO—a national labor union of 1.4 million public service workers. Paterson joined AFSCME in 2017 as Deputy General Counsel, prior to which he was a partner in the California union-side law firm Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, where he represented labor unions and workers in the public, private, and agricultural sectors, as well as boards of trustees of “Taft-Hartley” retirement and health and welfare employee benefit plans. Paterson received his J.D. degree from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and is a member of the bars of New York, California, and the District of Columbia.