Welcome to the Department of Industrial Relations
Commission member
Darrel "Shorty" Thacker
Appointed by: governor
Term expires: December 31, 2003

Darrel "Shorty" Thacker is the senior business representative of Carpenters Local 22. Thacker also served as the director of field support operations for the Bay Counties District Council of Carpenters.

Thacker joined the Millwrights in 1973, where he worked in construction as a journeyman, foreman, general foreman and superintendent from 1973 to 1978. He also worked as a Millwright business agent from 1978 to 1983.

Following his service as a United States Marine in the Vietnam War, Thacker earned an associate's degree in mathematics from Fresno City College in 1970.