Nanci E. Langley, Commissioner

Nanci Langley is a Commissioner on the independent Postal Regulatory Commission, the successor agency to the former Postal Rate Commission. She was unanimously confirmed as a Commissioner by the United States Senate on June 4, 2008, and appointed by President George W. Bush on June 6, 2008 to a term extending through November 22, 2012.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Langley was selected as the Commission’s first Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations. She spent 24 years as a senior legislative and policy advisor to two Senators from her home state of Hawaii – Senator Daniel K. Akaka and Senator Spark M. Matsunaga. Ms. Langley served in the office of Senator Akaka for 17 years, nine of which, as his Deputy Staff Director on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia. Throughout her tenure on the Committee, Ms. Langley counseled Senator Akaka on matters related to the U.S. Postal Service, including the drafting, negotiating, and passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, as well as large-scale government transformation such as the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the reorganization of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Her work on the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act provides Ms. Langley with a keen understanding and unique perspective of the Act and of the U.S. Postal Service. Senator Akaka served as the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Postal Subcommittee from 1999 to 2002, and was the acting ranking member during the Senate’s postal reform hearings. In addition to advocating on behalf of Senator Akaka on postal issues, Ms. Langley directed Subcommittee activities on federal pensions, health benefits, and other policies affecting the federal workforce, including the 700,000 postal employees, contract management, and government organization, for nine years.

Ms. Langley began her congressional career in 1983, as the Director of Communications for Senator Spark M. Matsunaga, who passed away in office in 1990. She was asked to join the staff of newly appointed Senator Akaka. As a senior policy assistant, Ms. Langley advised him on a wide range of issues, including banking, insurance, housing, telecommunications, the federal budget, and government management and operations.

A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Ms. Langley was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and is a graduate of the Punahou School and the University of Southern California. She and her husband are longtime residents of Northern Virginia. Their son and daughter-in-law reside in Salt Lake City, Utah.