James A. Pressley
International Vice President at Large - Industrial Sector Operations
(Industrial sector lodges, including those servicing members in non-construction industries: shipbuilding, railroad, cement, stove, metal, mining, boiler shop, forging, and manufacturing)
James A. Pressley is the International Vice President at Large for Industrial Sector Operations, a position he has held since Oct. 28, 2010. He also holds the position of Director of Administrative Affairs of the International President.
Pressley began his Boilermaker career in 1962, when he joined Local 900 (Barberton, Ohio), a boiler manufacturing lodge. He served in various lodge leadership positions and was elected president in 1988.
From 1994 until 2006, Pressley served as International Rep for the Great Lakes region. He was appointed Assistant to the Director of the Research and Collective Bargaining Services Department in 2005 and promoted to Director in 2006.
In 2007, he was named Director of the newly formed Industrial Sector Services Department. The following year, he was appointed Executive Director of Industrial Sector Operations and Director of Administrative Affairs of the International President.
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