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John F. Walsh, Vice Chairman Appointed
November 1999, term expires December 2006.
Elected Vice Chairman January 2003. Chairman,
Capital Projects Committee. Former President,
Ninth Square Association and Deputy Controller
and Purchasing Agent, City of New Haven,
Connecticut; Member, Board of Directors,
Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce.
S. David Fineman, Chairman Appointed May
1995, term expires December 2003. Elected
Chairman, January 2003. Served as Vice
Chairman, January 2001 through December
2002. Member, Strategic Planning Committee.
Managing partner, Fineman Krekstein & Harris,
P.C; Former member, Industry Policy Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce
and U.S. Trade Representative.
As the governing body of the Postal Service, the 11-member Board
of Governors has responsibilities comparable to a board of directors of a
publicly held corporation. The Board is composed of nine Governors
appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and
consent of the Senate. The other two members of the Board are the
Postmaster General and the Deputy Postmaster General. The Governors
appoint the Postmaster General, who serves at their pleasure without a
specific term of office. The Governors, together with the Postmaster
General, appoint the Deputy Postmaster General.
The Board meets on a regular basis and, at the annual meeting in
January, the chairman is elected by the Governors from among all
members of the Board. The vice chairman is elected by the full Board.
The Board directs the exercise of the power of the Postal Service. It
establishes policies, basic objectives, and long-range goals for the Postal
Service in accordance with Title 39 of the U.S. Code. Except for those
powers specifically vested in the Governors, the Board may delegate the
authority vested in it by statute to the Postmaster General under such
terms, conditions, and limitations, including the power of redelegation, as
it deems desirable. The Governors are authorized to establish reasonable
and equitable classes of mail and reasonable and equitable rates of
postage and fees for postal service. A specific power reserved by statute
for the Governors alone is to approve, allow under protest, reject or, by
unanimous written decision, modify recommended decisions of the Postal
Rate Commission on postal rate and mail classification changes.
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Robert F. Rider Appointed May 1995, term
expires December 2004. Served as Chairman,
January 2001 through December 2002. Served
as Vice Chairman, January 1999 through
December 2000. Member, Audit and Finance
Committee. Chairman and CEO, O.A. Newton &
Son Co.; Trustee, University of Delaware and
Wilmington Medical Center; Director of numer-
ous companies and institutions.
Albert V. Casey Appointed August 2002 through
a recess appointment expiring in late 2003. With
Senate confirmation, term expires December
2009. Chairman, Audit and Finance Committee.
Distinguished Executive in Residence, Southern
Methodist University; former Postmaster
General; former President and CEO, Resolution
Trust Corporation; and former Chairman, AMR
Corp. and American Airlines.
Alan C. Kessler Appointed November 2000, term
expires December 2008. Chairman, Strategic
Planning Committee. Attorney and entrepreneur;
Partner, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen,
LLP; Member, Board of Directors, Philadelphia
Industrial Development Corporation; Chairman,
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Continuing Legal
Education Board.
John E. Potter Appointed 72nd Postmaster General and Chief Executive
Officer of the United States Postal Service in June 2001. Potter has served
as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President; Senior Vice
President, Operations; Senior Vice President, Labor Relations; and Manager,
Capital Metro Operations.
John Nolan Appointed 17th Deputy Postmaster General in February 2000.
Nolan has served as General Manager and Postmaster for New York City;
Director of Operations for Merrill Lynch Production Technologies; Executive
Board member, National Postal Policy Council and the Mailers Council; Co-
chairman of the Mailing Industry Task Force.
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Ned R. McWherter Appointed October 1995,
term expires December 2003. Member, Audit
and Finance Committee. Former Governor of the
State of Tennessee and Speaker, Tennessee
House of Representatives; Officer and director of
numerous companies in the transportation,
financial, distribution, energy and health care
industries.
James C. Miller III Appointed April 2003 through
a recess appointment expiring in late 2004. With
Senate confirmation, term expires December
2010. Member, Capital Projects Committee.
Chairman, The CapAnalysis Group; Senior
Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University;
Former Director, U.S. Office of Management and
Budget; Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade
Commission.
LeGree S. Daniels Appointed August 1990 and
reappointed November 1999, term expires
December 2007. Member, Capital Projects
Committee. Former Assistant Secretary for Civil
Rights, U.S. Department of Education; former
member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission; former
member, Board of Directors, Center for
International Private Enterprise; member, Board
of Directors, Heinz Center.