Bernice Grant has been selected as the chief executive of the U.S. Postal Service in Indiana. She was recently named district manager for the Greater Indiana District. She is the first woman to serve in that position in the Greater Indiana District.
As district manager, Grant is responsible for more than 13,000 employees assigned to mail processing, mail delivery, retail sales and service and other postal operations at more than 670 Post Offices, stations and branches and 10 plants covering most of Indiana. She is also responsible for more than 2.5 million delivery addresses and manages a budget of nearly $1 billion with revenue of about $1.25 billion.
Grant started with the Postal Service in 1979 as a letter sorting machine distribution clerk in Gary. She began her management career in 1981 as a supervisor, distribution operations, and since that time has served in positions of increasing responsibility including operations support specialist; multi-line delivery analyst specialist; and manager, in-plant support at Gary Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) and South Suburban P&DC, Ill.
She was promoted to the Postal Service executive ranks as plant manager of the Chicago Bulk Mail Center in July 2006. In November 2006, she served as acting senior plant manager at the Indianapolis P&DC and was permanently awarded that position in August 2007.
Grant earned both her degrees from Indiana University. She graduated from the Postal Service’s Advanced Leadership Program in 1999.
