Dan Sulivan

Dan Sulivan is International Vice President of the Great Lakes Section. Prior to being elected by the International Executive Council to serve as IVP-Great Lakes, Sulivan served as Local 374 (Hobart, Indiana) Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer since 2017. He was sworn in as IVP on Oct. 1, 2023.

Sulivan began his welding career learning welding and metal trades skills as a Navy Seabee. His father was a Seabee, and Sulivan enlisted straight out of high school to follow his father’s footsteps. After his military career, he took a job at a local nonunion shop, and in 2002, he saw a Boilermakers’ newspaper ad seeking welders. He answered the ad, went on a job, took a make-or-break test and never looked back. After graduating from apprenticeship in 2006, he later served L-374 as a lodge inspector, sergeant-at-arms and vice president before being elected BM-ST. Sulivan is Second Vice President for the Indiana State Building Trades and is an Industrial Sector Vice President for the Northern Indiana Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.