Megan Brennan

A native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Brennan was one of seven children and attended Nativity BVM High School there, where she played softball and basketball and was on the 1978 state championship basketball team. She was the fourth basketball player at Nativity BVM High School ever to score 1,000 points, and was a co-captain of the basketball team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.republicanherald.com/news/first-woman-postmaster-general-and-director-of-ice-among-inductees-into-nativitys-golden-cross-society/article_c9400ff5-15b2-5451-b71f-6bb90673f726.html|title=First woman postmaster general and director of ICE among inductees into Nativity's Golden Cross Society|first=Ron Devlin Staff|last=Writer|date=May 5, 2024|website=Pottsville Republican Herald}} After graduating in 1980, she attended Immaculata College near Philadelphia, graduating in 1984 with a B.A. in history. Brennan is of Irish descent.{{Cite news |last=Stevens |first=Laura |title=New Postmaster's Goal: Act Like the Private Sector |url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-postmasters-goal-act-like-the-private-sector-1416788696 |access-date=2023-03-14 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=November 24, 2014 |language=en-US}}

Brennan earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2003.{{cite press release|url=http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_061.htm|title=Postal Service Board of Governors selects Megan Brennan as 74th Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service|date=November 14, 2014|publisher=United States Postal Service|accessdate=November 15, 2014}}

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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.{{cite web|title=Postmaster General |url=https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/officers/pmg-ceo.htm|website=Leadership and Officers USPS|publisher=United States Postal Service|accessdate=February 14, 2016}} 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, the Washington Post reported that President Trump personally pushed her to double the rates on Amazon and other firms.{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-personally-pushed-postmaster-general-to-double-rates-on-amazon-other-firms/2018/05/18/2b6438d2-5931-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html |title=Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms |author=Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey|website=WashingtonPost.com |access-date=May 22, 2018}}

On October 16, 2019, Brennan announced in a statement that she would be retiring upon fulfilling her five-year commitment as Postmaster General.{{cite web | last1=Ziobro | first1=Paul | title=U.S. Postal Service Head to Retire | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-head-to-retire-11571251002 | date=October 16, 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal | accessdate=October 17, 2019}} However, on January 6, her retirement was delayed until a successor could be found.

In 2022, Brennan was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame’s Allen Rogowicz Chapter.

On April 27, 2024, Nativity BVM High School, from which Brennan graduated in 1980, inducted her into its Society of the Golden Cross.

One of Brennan's brothers worked in their hometown Pottsville post office until he died in 2013.{{cite web |last1=Straehley|first1=Steve|title=Postmaster General: Who Is Megan Brennan?|url=http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/postmaster-general-who-is-megan-brennan-141208?news=855033|website=AllGov|accessdate=February 14, 2016}}

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