Meridian Interstate Bancorp Announces Retirement of Director Paul T. Sullivan

Meridian Interstate Bancorp

announced Director Paul T. Sullivan will be retiring from the Boards of Directors of the Company and the Bank, effective January 3, 2012. Sullivan, a practicing attorney for over 40 years, specialized in the area of probate law, and specifically estate planning. He retired from active practice in 2010. Prior to opening his own firm in 2008, he was a partner at Bagley and Bagley. Sullivan joined the East Boston organization in 1990 as a corporator of Meridian Financial Services Incorporated, the Company's mutual holding company, becoming a trustee of the mutual holding company in 1999 and a director of the Bank in 2001.