United States Postal Service Recess Appointment of William 1. Sullivan as a Governor.

The President today announced the recess appointment of William J. Sullivan, of Bangor, Maine, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 1984.

Sullivan, 47, has been vice chancellor for administration at the University of Maine since 1976. From 1964 to 1976, he was with the Post Office Department and Postal Service, serving as Staff Assistant to the Postmaster General; Assistant Staff Director of the President's Commission on Postal Organization; Director of Planning for the Postal Service from 1968 to 1971; Postmaster-District Manager of the U.S. Postal Service in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1971 to 1973; and Western Regional Postmaster General from 1973 to 1976.

Sullivan holds an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and has attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.