Megan Brennan

Megan Brennan
74th United States Postmaster General
Incumbent
Assumed office February 1, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Ronald Stroman
Preceded by	Patrick Donahoe
Personal details
Born	1961 (age 54–55) Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Immaculata University Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Megan J. Brennan is the seventy-fourth (and first female)^[1] United States Postmaster General. She took office on February 1, 2015.^[2][1] Appointed by the Governors of the Postal Service. In the prior four years, Brennan served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Postal Service, and held prior roles as Vice President of both the Eastern Area and Northeast Area Operations. Brennan began her 29-year Postal Service career as a Letter Carrier in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.^[3] The U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors on November 14, 2014, voted to appoint Megan J. Brennan, a career Postal Service employee, as the next postmaster general. Brennan, who will be the first woman in the post, will assume her duties after the February 2015 retirement of Patrick Donahoe.

Brennan is a native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

She began with the Postal Service in 1986 as a letter carrier in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She subsequently worked her way up the ladder as a delivery and collection supervisor, processing plant manager in Reading and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and a district manager in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Brennan stepped away from the Postal Service for a year to study as a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her MBA in 2003.

She served as manager of field support and integration, manager of operations support for the Northeast Area and in May 2005 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 Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Central and South Jersey, Western New York and parts of Virginia and Indiana.

In December 2010, Brennan was named chief operating officer and executive vice president of the Postal Service. Beginning in 2012, she had to begin shutting mail-handling facilities because of budget cuts brought on by less mail and Congressional-mandated pension funding rules. Initially many rural post offices were on the chopping block as well, but outcries from affected residents, as well as their representatives in Congress, forced another plan. Instead, hours in many rural facilities were cut, but the offices were saved.

Brennan wasn’t the only postal worker in her family; her late brother worked in the hometown Pottsville post office until he died in 2013.^[4]

Education

Brennan is a native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. She attended Nativity BVM High School, where she played basketball (shooting guard position usually, but sometimes forward-center) on the 1978 state championship team and played softball. She graduated in 1980 and went to Immaculata College outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from there in 1984 with a B.A. in history. A MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.^[5]

References

1. Bigalke, Jay (November 14, 2014). "First woman postmaster general starts Feb. 1". Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
2. http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/pmg-exec-comm.htm#p=1
3. "Postmaster General". Leadership and Officers USPS. United States Postal Service. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
4. Straehley, Steve. "Postmaster General: Who Is Megan Brennan?". AllGov. AllGov. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
5. "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.

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.