Megan Brennan
Megan Brennan | |
|---|---|
 Megan Brennan at 225th Anniversary of U.S. Coast Guard stamp event | |
| 74th United States Postmaster General | |
| Assumed office February 1, 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Ronald Stroman |
| Preceded by | Patrick Donahoe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63)[citation needed] Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Immaculata University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MBA) |
Megan Jane Brennan (born 1961[citation needed]) is the Postmaster General of the United States. The seventy-fourth postmaster general, Brennan became the first woman to hold the office when she assumed the position on February 1, 2015.[1][2]
Early life and education
A native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Brennan attended Nativity BVM High School there, where she played softball and basketball and was on the 1978 state championship basketball team. After graduating in 1980, she attended Immaculata College near Philadelphia, graduating in 1984 with a B.A. in history. Brennan is of Irish[3] descent.
Brennan earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2003.[4]
Brennan's late brother worked in their hometown Pottsville post office until he died in 2013.[5]
Career
She began her career with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in 1986 as a letter carrier in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She subsequently worked as a delivery and collection supervisor, a processing plant manager in Reading and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, and a district manager in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Brennan stepped away from the USPS for a year to study as a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following that hiatus, she served as manager of field support and integration and manager of operations support for the Northeast Area. In May 2005 she was named vice president for the Northeast Area, where she coordinated and integrated processing and distribution, transportation and delivery operations in that region. Brennan was then named vice president of Eastern Area Operations, putting her in charge of postal operations in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Central and South Jersey, Western New York and parts of Virginia and Indiana.[6] In December 2010, she was named chief operating officer and executive vice president of the USPS. In 2012, she began shutting down mail-handling facilities because of budget cuts brought on by less mail and Congressionally-mandated pension funding rules.
On November 14, 2014, the U.S. Postal Service's Board of Governors voted to appoint Brennan postmaster general, to succeed Patrick R. Donahoe, who was set to retire in February 2015.
In May 2018 it was reported President Donald Trump personally pushed Brennan to double the rates on Amazon and other firms.[7]
References
- ^ Bigalke, Jay (November 14, 2014). "First woman postmaster general starts Feb. 1". Linn's Stamp News. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "The Postmaster General and Executive Leadership Team". about.usps.com. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "one of seven children in an Irish Catholic family." - https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-postmasters-goal-act-like-the-private-sector-1416788696
- ^ "Postal Service Board of Governors selects Megan Brennan as 74th Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service" (Press release). United States Postal Service. November 14, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- ^ Straehley, Steve. "Postmaster General: Who Is Megan Brennan?". AllGov. AllGov. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ^ "Postmaster General". Leadership and Officers USPS. United States Postal Service. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ^ Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey. "Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
External links
- "Postal Service Board of Governors selects Megan Brennan as 74th Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service" (Press release). United States Postal Service. November 14, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
