Megan Brennan

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Megan Brennan
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74th United States Postmaster General
Assumed office
February 1, 2015
President Barack Obama
Deputy Ronald Stroman
Preceded by Patrick Donahoe
Personal details
Born 1961 (age 62–63)
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Alma mater Immaculata University
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology

Megan Jane Brennan (born 1961) is the seventy-fourth United States Postmaster General. Brennan became the first female to hold this office on February 1, 2015[1][2] after being appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service.

Career

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.

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]

On November 14, 2014, the U.S. Postal Service's Board of Governors voted to appoint Brennan as the next postmaster general, succeeding Patrick R. Donahoe, who was set to retire in February 2015.

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.

She has a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management earned in 2003.[5]

References

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Government offices
Preceded by United States Postmaster General
2015–present
Incumbent

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