Thomas W. Sterling

Overview

A native of Union City, Tenn., Mr. 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. He began his career with U. S. Steel in 1969 at the firm's Fairfield (Ala.) Works as a management trainee. He was assigned positions there in the operating, personnel services and commercial departments until 1975 when he was transferred to the Pittsburgh headquarters as assistant manager-equal employment opportunity in the employee relations department. Mr. Sterling progressed through various employee relations positions in Pittsburgh before he became vice president-labor relations, steel and related resources for the former U. S. Steel Group of USX Corporation in 1984. In 1986, he became vice president-employee relations with responsibility for all human resources, labor relations, productivity improvement, and health and safety matters for the U. S. Steel Group. In 1996, he assumed additional responsibility for employee benefits. Additionally, Mr. Sterling held oversight responsibilities for several of U. S. Steel's joint venture operations with foreign steel companies, including USS-POSCO Industries and PRO-TEC Coating Company. In 2000, Mr. Sterling was elected president of Transtar, Inc., now a wholly owned subsidiary of U. S. Steel, which owns the following operating companies: Birmingham Southern Railroad; Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway; The Lake Terminal Railroad; McKeesport Connecting Railroad; Union Railroad; and Warrior & Gulf Navigation. He served in that position until June 2003, when he was elected to his current position of senior vice president-human resources. Mr. Sterling is chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) - Braddock, and a member of the Board of Directors at UPMC - McKeesport and the Heritage Health Foundation. He serves as president-elect of the Greater Pittsburgh Council of the Boy Scouts of America as well as a member of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Robert Morris University, and currently represents U. S. Steel on the Board of Directors of Maglev, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company promoting the development of magnetically levitated transportation systems in the United States with an initial line to be constructed in the Pittsburgh area.