Mary Anne Gibbons was named Vice President and General Counsel for the U.S. Postal Service in January 1999 and Senior Vice President in December 2003. She serves as counsel to the Board of Governors and is a member of the Executive, Capital Investment, and Business Review Committees.

Gibbons is charged with helping the Postal Service keep pace with national and international business issues and opportunities in all aspects of its business including its transformation plans, product development and price-setting and other major business initiatives. Gibbons manages a complex legal department with branch offices in nine major metropolitan areas nationwide.

Gibbons' areas of responsibility and control range from government regulatory practice of federal ethics, torts, freedom of information and employment law to Board governance, postal pricing and products, labor negotiations and extensive work in legislative and international law. In addition, the General Counsel’s office addresses legal issues involving intellectual property, consumer protection, revenue protection, the environment, contracts, facilities and purchasing, labor relations, as well as administrative and federal court litigation.

Earlier, Gibbons served as deputy General Counsel; Managing Counsel, Civil Practice; Managing Counsel of the Postal Service’s Capitol Metro Law Office; and as a labor law attorney for the General Counsel.

Gibbons has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching U.S. Legal Discourse to foreign lawyers and also has been on the adjunct faculty of American University’s law school. Prior to joining the Postal Service, she served as an attorney and Assistant General Counsel at the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds.

Gibbons is a 1980 graduate of the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. She earned her Master of Arts degree at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mundelein College in Chicago.

She serves as a member of Board of Visitors for Catholic University’s law school. She is an active member of the Home School Association of Sacred Heart School and of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, both in Washington.

March 2008