Who:

Robert Villa, Jr.

What:

Installed as the 22nd postmaster of Santa Monica, CA

When:

10:00 a.m.
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Where:

Santa Monica High School
601 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica CA 90405

Background:

Robert Villa started his postal career in 1993 as a mail handler at the Pasadena Processing & Distribution Center. The following year he began accepting part-time supervisory assignments and was promoted into management full time in 1997 as a Distribution Operations Supervisor at the Santa Clarita Processing & Distribution Center. Villa also held assignments as Distribution Operations Manager at that facility from 1999 to 2001.

In 2003, Villa expanded his skills to delivery operations and was assigned to the position of Customer Service Supervisor at the San Fernando Post Office. He went on to an assignment as Customer Service Manager at the Van Nuys Post Office in 2005, and was promoted in 2007 to Customer Service Manager of Hazard Station in Los Angeles.

Villa has also held assignments as Customer Service Manager at Los Feliz Station, Eagle Rock Station and Alameda Carrier Annex, and as Customer Service Operations Manager for the Los Angeles Post Office. He was assigned as Officer-in-Charge at the Santa Monica Post Office in 2014, and officially promoted to Santa Monica Postmaster on March 7, 2015.

Villa served honorably in the U.S. Army before his postal career and was married for 25 years before losing his wife to cancer in 2008. He has four daughters and eight grandchildren.