The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to transportation. The secretary is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States,and is fourteenth in the presidential line of succession.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs,the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry,Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads.
Rodney Earl Slater is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the United States Secretary of Transportation under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. Prior to being appointed to the Clinton Cabinet,Slater served as the administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 1993 to 1997.
Jane F. Garvey is a former government transportation and public works official,now an American business executive,currently serving as the chairman of Meridiam North America. She was the first female Administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from 1997 to 2002. In May 2018,she was tapped to become the first female Chairman of United Continental Holdings.
Nicole Robilotto Nason is an American government official who served as the 26th Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 2019 to 2021. Nason previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration.
In the United States,highway beautification is the subject of the Highway Beautification Act (HBA),passed in the Senate on September 16,1965 and in the U.S. House of Representatives on October 8,1965,and signed by the President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22,1965. This created "23 USC 131" or Section 131 of Title 23,United States Code (1965),commonly referred to as "Title I of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965,as Amended",and nicknamed "Lady Bird's Bill." It was the pet project of the First Lady,Lady Bird Johnson,who believed that beauty,and generally clean streets,would make the U.S. a better place to live.
Victor Mendez was the Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 2014 to 2017 and was previously sworn in on July 24,2009,as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),the 18th person to hold this position.
Gregory Robert Dahlberg was United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2000 to 2001.
Michael Peter Huerta is an American government official who served as Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from 2013 to 2018. He was also Acting U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Donald Trump for 11 days in 2017 until the Senate confirmed the appointment of Elaine Chao to the position.
Donald Trump assumed office as President of the United States on January 20,2017,and his term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as the United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
Gregory G. Nadeau is a politician and former Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration which he served from 2015 to 2017.
Thomas J. Madison,Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation on August 1,2008. He was sworn in as Administrator on August 18,2008.
J. Richard "Rick" Capka was sworn in as the 16th Federal Highway Administrator on May 31,2006 and served until he resigned on January 24,2008. Previously,Capka had been appointed the Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in August 2002 and was the Acting Administrator since August 2005. In those capacities,he helped to prepare the Bush administration's proposed transportation reauthorization legislation;to shape the management of highway mega-projects and;to develop national programs and initiatives to relieve congestion. He was also the first U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) official to deploy to Iraq (2003) and led the highly successful federal response to the tragic 2007 collapse of the I-35 W Bridge in Minneapolis,MN.
Robert E. Farris was sworn in as Federal Highway Administrator on June 8,1988,after serving as the FHWA's Deputy Federal Highway Administrator from August 1986.
Logan Waller Page was an American administrator,who became the first Director of the newly created Office of Public Roads in 1905,after the US Congress passed an act that consolidated the Office of Public Inquiry and the Bureau of Chemistry.
Joel McElroy Carson III is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Heidi R. King served as acting Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Brandye Hendrickson was named Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration on July 24,2017,after having been Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation. She also became Acting Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration until Nicole Nason was confirmed by the Senate. On July 19,2019,Brandye left her position to take another Deputy position as American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
Joel Szabat is a former American government official and military officer. In August 2018,Szabat was nominated by President Donald Trump to become Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs. He was confirmed by the United States Senate in a unanimous voice vote on January 2,2019. Szabat became Acting Under Secretary in June,2019.
