Thomas J. Marshall retired as the Postal Service’s general counsel on Feb. 1, after more than 30 years with the organization.
He began his USPS career as an attorney in the Eastern Area law office in Philadelphia. He was promoted to deputy managing counsel in St. Louis and held managing counsel positions in the Capital Metro law office and the Civil Practice Section.
Marshall was named general counsel in May 2013 and has been responsible for supporting the Postal Service in all aspects of its business, including its network rationalization plans, price setting, product development and other major business and strategic initiatives.
Marshall is known for leading the law department in finding creative legal solutions to complicated issues. For example, Marshall and his teams developed litigation and appellate strategies to successfully obtain the exigent price surcharge that was in effect from 2014 through April of 2016, and which resulted in significant revenue for the Postal Service.
Another legal strategy developed under Marshall’s leadership enabled the Postal Service to continue operating, adjust prices and change products after it lost a statutory quorum of the Board of Governors — and ultimately all the presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed board members — a situation that lasted for nearly five years, beginning in 2014.
Before joining USPS, Marshall was a commercial litigator with the Resolution Trust Corp., and the international law firm Reed Smith Shaw & McClay.
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