Who Is David C. Williams? A Postal Service Overseer Who Resigned

WASHINGTON — David C. Williams, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors, will testify before House lawmakers on Thursday and is expected to detail what he claims were efforts by the Trump administration to undermine the agency.

Mr. Williams, who previously served as the agency’s inspector general, stepped down from his post as an overseer of the Postal Service without explanation in April, shortly after the board selected Louis DeJoy to serve as postmaster general. Mr. DeJoy has since come under fire for conflicts of interest as well as instituting a slew of cost-cutting measures to the Postal Service that have slowed down mail service and drawn warnings from voting rights advocates that the integrity of the November election could be undermined.

His testimony before the Congressional Progressive Caucus, where he is expected to share his concerns that the administration is pushing to privatize the Postal Service, comes a day before Mr. DeJoy begins the first of two days of testimony on Capitol Hill to answer lawmakers’ questions about the changes he has implemented. He will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday and before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

This is what we know about Mr. Williams.

He oversaw the Postal Service’s board of governors but abruptly resigned in April.

The Postal Service’s Board of Governors functions similar to the board of directors of a publicly held corporation. Made up of nine governors — no more than five of whom may be from the same political party — who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, the board is also responsible for selecting the postmaster general. Mr. Williams, who was appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate last August, has not publicly discussed his political views, but members of the board understood him to be one of two Democrats.