GARY – The U.S. Postal Service has named Bernice Grant as chief executive of the Indiana District and district manager for the Greater Indiana District.

Grant, a Gary native, will be responsible for 13,000 employees at more than 670 post offices in Indiana. Those employees are responsible for delivering and processing 2.5 million items. She will have a budget of $1 billion.

Grant joined the Postal Service in 1979 as a letter sorting machine distribution clerk in Gary. She is a graduate of Wallace High School, and Indiana University, as well as the Postal Service’s Advanced Leadership Program in 1999.

Currently, Grant lives in Brownsburg.