(Whitehouse Press Release) The President intends to nominate Thurgood Marshall, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Governor of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, for the remainder of a nine year term expiring December 8, 2011.

Thurgood Marshall, Jr.  “began his legal career as a law clerk to the United States District Judge Barri D. Parker. Later, Marshall Jr. served as a Counsel with the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, as well as the Governmental Affairs Committee. Marshall Jr. worked with then Senator Al Gore in the Senate and then as the Director of Legislative Affairs and Deputy Counsel for Vice President Gore. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President. Marshall Jr. was the liaison between the President and the agencies of the Executive Branch. Although Marshall Jr. has had an illustrious career serving the public, he is most widely known as the son of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.” source: Sacramento Bar | See Also Thurgood Marshall’s Bio 

Marshall’s Senate confirmation would fill the last vacancy on the Board of Governors.

  Members of the Board of Governors
  James C. Miller III, Chairman (Republican)
  Alan C. Kessler, Vice Chairman  (Democrat)
  Mickey D. Barnett (Republican)
  James H. Bilbray (Democrat)
  Carolyn Lewis Gallagher (Republican)
  Louis J. Giuliano (Republican)
  Katherine C. Tobin (Democrat)
  Ellen C. Williams (Republican)
  John E. Potter, Postmaster General and CEO
  Patrick R. Donahoe, Deputy Postmaster General and COO