U. S. Steel Senior VP Administration to Retire
02/10/2009 - United States Steel announces that Thomas W. Sterling, Senior Vice President – Administration, has elected to retire from the company effective April 1, 2009.
United States Steel Corp. Chairman and CEO John P. Surma announced that Senior Vice President—Administration Thomas W. Sterling has elected to retire from the company effective April 1, 2009.
"Our company has benefitted greatly from the talent and commitment of Tom Sterling during his nearly 40-year career with U. S. Steel," said Surma. "As our longest-serving executive, Tom's thoughtful advice and wise counsel as a member of our Executive Management Committee have been essential to some of our company's most important business decisions and are evidence of his versatility as an executive. He has also played a key role in identifying and developing the men and women who lead our company today."
Surma added that a successor for Sterling's areas of responsibility would be named at a later date.
Sterling, 61, joined U. S. Steel in 1969 as a Management Trainee at Fairfield Works in Fairfield, Ala. He advanced through increasingly responsible positions in Fairfield Works’ operating, personnel services and commercial departments as well as the employee relations department at Pittsburgh headquarters, and was later appointed Vice President—Labor Relations, Steel and Related Resources for the former U. S. Steel Group of USX Corp. (1984). He was named Vice President—Employee Relations for U. S. Steel Group in 1986, later assuming assumed responsibility for employee benefits (1996) and overseeing several of U. S. Steel's joint venture operations with foreign steel companies.
Sterling was elected President of Transtar, Inc., U. S. Steel's wholly owned railroad and barge transportation subsidiary (2000), and was later appointed Senior Vice President—Human Resources for U. S. Steel (2003) and was Senior Vice President—Human Resources & Business Services (2004). He assumed his current position in 2007 with continuing oversight of business services as well as added responsibility for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project activities, Public Affairs and various other administrative functions.
Sterling serves as Chairman of the United States Steel Foundation; Chairman of the board of directors of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)—Braddock; a member of the board of directors at UPMC—McKeesport; a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Greater Pittsburgh Council of the Boy Scouts of America; and a member of the board of trustees of Robert Morris University.
Sterling graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He earned his law degree from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Ala., and has been admitted to the bar in Alabama and Pennsylvania.
