Thomas Usher

Thomas J. Usher (born September 11, 1942) is an American business executive that has served as the President, Chief Operations Officer and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Steel. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marathon Oil, the International Iron and Steel Institute, and the US-Korea Business Council, as well as at U.S. Steel. He joined United States Steel Corporation in 1965 and held various positions in industrial engineering spending much of his early career in the field. From 1975 through 1979 he held a number of management positions, including assistant to the general superintendent, at U. S. Steel's South Works in Chicago and Gary Works in Gary, Indiana.

Usher moved back to Pittsburgh in 1979 as director of corporate strategic planning. Two years later, he became assistant to the president and managing director of facility planning, engineering, and research. Usher became president of USS mining in 1983, Senior Vice President of Steel Operations in 1984, Executive Vice President of Heavy Products in 1986.

Early in his career, Usher spent ten years teaching courses part-time at the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business as well as undergraduate and graduate classes in industrial engineering at the university's Swanson School of Engineering. He became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer effective in 1995, which provided him oversight of USX's oil and energy businesses.

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