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Brian L. Renfroe (born April 7, 1980) is an American labor union leader. Brian L. Renfroe is the 19th National President of the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO, the union representing 285,000 active and retired city letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service. He is the youngest national president in the union's history and its first from the Deep South. Born in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County, Mississippi, Forrest County (where it is the county seat and most populous city) and extending west into Lamar County, Mississippi, Lamar County. The ci ...
, Renfroe was educated at Oak Grove High School and the
University of Southern Mississippi The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bac ...
, before following his father in becoming a letter carrier. He joined the
National Association of Letter Carriers The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is an American labor union, representing non-rural letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service. It was founded in 1889. The NALC has 2,500 local branches representing letter c ...
(NALC), and was elected as president of his local branch in 2008, then as president of the Mississippi State Association of Letter Carriers in 2011. Later in 2011, Renfroe was appointed as a staffer at the union's Washington, DC Headquarters as a member of Contract Administration Unit, focusing on issues around city delivery. In 2013, he became a special assistant to the union's president. In 2014, he was elected as the union's director of city delivery. He was appointed as the union's executive vice president in 2016 to fill a vacancy, and ran unopposed in 2018, resulting in being re-elected to the position. He won election as national president of NALC in 2022 and has served in that capacity since December of 2022. Renfroe also serves on the
AFL-CIO The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 61 national and international unions, together r ...
Executive Council.


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1977 births Living people American trade union leaders People from Hattiesburg, Mississippi Trade unionists from Mississippi Vice presidents of the AFL-CIO {{trade-unionist-bio-stub