USPS names first female chief executive

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The U.S. Postal Service has named the first female chief executive in Indiana.

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.

Grant is the first woman to serve in that position in the Greater Indiana District.

As district manager, she is responsible for more than 13,000 employees assigned to mail processing, mail delivery, retail sales and service. She is also responsible for other postal operations at more than 670 Post Offices, stations and branches and ten plants covering most of Indiana, according to a release.

Additionally, she is in charge of more than 2.5 million delivery addresses and manages a budget of nearly $1 billion with revenue of about $1.25 billion.

Grant started working 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 of distribution operations.

Since then she has served in positions of increasing responsibility such as the 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 and graduated from the Postal Service's Advanced Leadership Program in 1999.

She has received many awards and honors, including numerous Area Vice President's Awards throughout her career.