(NALC Press Release) - William H. Young, a member of Central California Coast Branch 52, was reelected today as president of the 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers at the union’s 65th biennial convention at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Young, 60, who is concluding his first term as NALC president, was elected by acclamation to a new four-year term to lead the 117-year-old union that represents all city delivery letter carriers in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.

Young serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO. In addition, he is a national vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the union’s official charity, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit.

He began his postal career in 1965 in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and soon became involved in his local NALC branch. Following service in the Army, Young returned to the post office, quickly rose through local and state NALC ranks, and was elected as a national resident officer in Washington, DC in 1990. He served four years as executive vice president before being elected as president in 2002.