President Biden Announces Key Nominees

WASHINGTON - Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to renominate the following individual to continue serving as a key leader in his administration:

• Anton Hajjar, Nominee to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors

Anton Hajjar, Nominee to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors

Anton Hajjar was previously confirmed by the U.S. Senate via voice vote, and sworn into office as a Governor of the United States Postal Service on May 28, 2021.

Anton Hajjar is the former General Counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, and has significant experience representing unions and union workers. Since his retirement from active practice at the end of 2016, he has concentrated on pro bono legal work in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

He worked for seven years for the National Labor Relations Board in the New Orleans regional office and the Appellate Court Branch in Washington, D.C. In private practice, he was a Principal with O'Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, PC and Of Counsel with Murphy Anderson PLLC. Hajjar has written articles and given presentations to federal judges, lawyers, union officials and lay audiences on labor and employment subjects. He has been an advisor and pro bono attorney in numerous employment discrimination cases. In 2002, he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and has served as a member of its governing board since 2010. The American-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee presented Hajjar with its Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award in 2012 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.

Hajjar has a J.D. from Tulane Law School and clerked for the Honorable John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before law school, he was employed for three years as a U.S. Customs Inspector. Hajjar has also worked as merchant seaman, factory worker, truck driver, laborer, and hospital attendant.

He now lives in Chevy Chase, MD, with his wife Sandra Hughes, who was a labor attorney and consults on aging issues. They have two adopted children, Claire and Gregory, who were born in Lebanon. They have one grandchild.

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