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Biden nominates former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be USPS governor
If the nomination is confirmed by the Senate, he will join the board as one of the nine governors.
Marty Walsh — the former union leader, state representative, mayor of Boston, and Secretary of Labor, and now the head of the NHL Players’ Association — will likely add another national position to his extensive resume.
President Joe Biden nominated Walsh, a Dorchester native, to be a governor of the United States Postal Service. If the nomination is confirmed by the Senate, he will join the board as one of the nine governors.
The USPS’s Board of Governors — which also includes a postmaster general and a deputy postmaster general — operates like the executives of a publicly held company, according to USPS. They control finances, plan long-term goals, approve payroll, and control the powers and policies of the postal service.
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The term is seven years, and governors cannot serve more than two terms, the USPS website says.
The Boston College graduate’s nomination was announced Thursday along with potential ambassadors, commissioners for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the U.S. director of the African Development Bank.
Biden’s announcement praised Walsh’s background as a union member, cancer survivor, and a person recovered from alcoholism.
“Marty Walsh has spent his life fighting for working people, as a labor leader, as a public official and as a private citizen,” Biden’s statement said. “Walsh is someone who never forgets where he came from.”
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