Susan Harthill, a former high-level U.S. Labor Department lawyer overseeing national operations, has jumped to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the firm said Tuesday.

Harthill, who had served as the Labor Department’s deputy solicitor for national operations since 2014, joined the firm’s Washington office as a partner. Harthill formerly was a law professor at Florida Coastal School of Law before joining the Obama-era Labor Department. Harthill was a special counsel at Steptoe & Johnson LLP from 1994 to 2005.