On March 2, the White House sent to the US Senate three nominations to fill vacant positions on the Postal Service’s Board of Governors. No details about the nominees’ education, professional experience, or qualifications were included with the nominations, so any such information had to be gleaned from internet searches.
- Jeffrey Brodsky, of Palm Beach (FL), for a term expiring December 8, 2029, replacing William Zollars; the seat has been vacant since Zollars’ holdover year ended on December 8, 2023. Brodsky appears to be involved in financial and business consulting.
- William Gallo, of Deerfield Beach (FL), for a term expiring December 8, 2030, replacing Anton Hajjar; the seat has been vacant since Hajjar’s holdover year ended on December 8, 2024. Gallo appears to have a background in finance.
- Robert Steffens, of Austin (TX), for a term expiring December 8, 2032, replacing Robert Duncan, who resigned on March 27, 2025; the seat has been vacant since then. Steffens appears to have a lengthy career in financial planning and business operations in the entertainment industry.
The recent nominees join a fourth whose name was originally submitted on June 2, 2025. Because that nomination expired with the end of the last session of Congress, it was resubmitted on January 13, 2026:
- Anthony Lomangino, of Palm Beach (FL), for a term expiring December 8, 2031, replacing former board chair Roman Martinez IV, whose holdover year ended on December 8, 2025. As reported in August 2025 by Waste Today, Lomangino owns a 70-year old family waste and recycling business operating in New York and Florida. Open Secrets indicates that, in 2024, Lomangino donated nearly $9 million to a super-PAC supporting the Trump campaign. According to a February 2 article in the Palm Beach Daily News, he and his wife recently paid nearly $77 million for a seaside “landmarked mansion,” in Palm Beach, their second house in the city.
Qualifications
Under the 2006 postal reform law, “The Governors shall represent the public interest generally, and shall be chosen solely on the basis of their experience in the field of public service, law or accounting or on their demonstrated ability in managing organizations or corporations (in either the public or private sector) of substantial size; except that at least 4 of the Governors shall be chosen solely on the basis of their demonstrated ability in managing organizations or corporations (in either the public or private sector) that employ at least 50,000 employees. …”
As has been evident for years, that statutory provision has been generally ignored; most persons are selected based on political affiliation or because of a connection to someone influential in the sitting administration. There’s little about the latest nominees to suggest that practice has changed.
Less subjectively, the law also proscribes having more than five governors from the same political party. The current governors are two Democrats, one Republican, and one Independent, so the four recent nominees can all be Republican without exceeding the partisan limitation.
However, the term of current board chair Amber McReynolds, the Independent, expires December 8 (and her holdover year ends a year later) so if the current nominees are all confirmed her replacement would need to be a Democrat or Independent. The terms of the other three governors, Daniel Tangherlini, Derek Kan, and Ronald Stroman (including their holdover years) extend past the 2028 elections.
The process
All four nominations were sent to the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, but a hearing on them has not yet been scheduled. There is no requirement for when any hearing(s) must be scheduled, or for the same hearing to consider all four nominations. Lomangino’s first nomination was never considered by the committee and so expired at the end of the first session of the 119th Congress; the same fate could befall any or all of the latest nominees if the committee and/or Senate fail to act by the end of the current session.
If confirmed by the Senate, the nominees would occupy seats that have been vacant since the end of the prior incumbents’ seven year term (not the holdover year) meaning that, at best, Brodsky, Gallo, Lomangino, and Steffens would only serve about three, four, five, or six years, respectively. However, any of the four nominations could be derailed by unfavorable information presented by external groups, such as organized labor; by a “hold” blocking a confirmation vote by any Senator because of concerns over some aspect of the nominee’s professional or political background; or by becoming a bargaining chip in broader political horse-trading. As a result, none of the nominees should be planning for their first board meeting just yet.