John E. "Jack" Potter (born 1956) is the President and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since July 18, 2011. He is the former United States Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service (USPS), having become the 72nd Postmaster General on June 1, 2001.
Potter's father, Richard, was a Manhattan letter carrier who later became a senior executive of the postal service. After graduating from Cardinal Spellman Hig...
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John E. "Jack" Potter (born 1956) is the President and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since July 18, 2011. He is the former United States Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service (USPS), having become the 72nd Postmaster General on June 1, 2001.
Potter's father, Richard, was a Manhattan letter carrier who later became a senior executive of the postal service. After graduating from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx a year behind Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Potter attended Fordham University. He joined the postal service in 1978 as a distribution clerk in Westchester keying zip codes into sorting machines. After eight years in New York, including a three-year analyst's stint at 50th St. and Broadway, Potter rose rapidly through the hierarchy, establishing himself as an automation expert.
In April 2002, Potter submitted the USPS Transformation Plan to Congress in response to the many challenges the Postal Service faced,...
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