DeWitt is the second largest city in Arkansas County,Arkansas,United States,which also serves as the county seat of the southern district of Arkansas County. Population was 3,292 at the time of the 2010 census. The city is located on the Arkansas Grand Prairie,known for rice farming and duck hunting. DeWitt is home to the DeWitt School District and the DeWitt Municipal Airport.
Norman Yoshio Mineta was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Mineta served in the United States Cabinet for Presidents Bill Clinton,a Democrat,and George W. Bush,a Republican.
Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lawyer,author,and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career,he served twice as Senate Majority Leader,and also,alternately,Senate Minority Leader. In 2003,he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
James Lee Witt is a former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),during the tenure of U.S. President Bill Clinton and is often credited with raising the agency's level of professionalism and ability to respond to disasters.
John Berlinger Breaux is an American lobbyist,attorney,and retired politician from Louisiana. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from 1987 to 2005. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
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.
Squire Patton Boggs is an international law firm with over 40 offices in 20 countries. It was formed in 2014 by the merger of multinational law firm Squire Sanders with Washington,D.C. based Patton Boggs. It is one of the largest law firms in the world by total headcount and gross revenue,twelfth largest firm in the UK by revenue,and one of the top 12 by number of countries occupied.
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.
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Washington,D.C.-based 527 organization founded in 1983,consisting of U.S. state and territorial governors affiliated with the Democratic Party. The mission of the organization is to provide party support to the election and re-election of Democratic gubernatorial candidates. The DGA's Republican counterpart is the Republican Governors Association. The DGA is not directly affiliated with the non-partisan National Governors Association. Meghan Meehan-Draper is currently the DGA's executive director,while Tim Walz is the current chair.
Frank George Wisner II is an American businessman and former diplomat who had served as acting United States Secretary of State for a few hours following the resignation of the previous acting United States Secretary of State Arnold Kanter at noon on January 20,1993 until the confirmation by the United States Senate and swearing in of Warren Christopher as United States Secretary of State later that day. He is the son of CIA official Frank Wisner (1909–1965). On January 31,2011,he was sent to Egypt by President Barack Obama to negotiate a resolution to the popular protests against the regime that had swept the country. A White House spokesman said that Wisner had vast experience in the region as well as close relationships with many Egyptians in and out of government. The New York Times reported that he was a personal friend of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
Alberto Remigio Cárdenas y Pardo is a Cuban-born American lawyer,politician and conservative activist who is a partner in the law firm of Squire Patton Boggs and in the Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners. He has been named as one of Washington D.C.'s top lobbyists by The Hill newspaper. Cardenas was a member of the Board of Trustees of Florida A&M University.
James Randolph Evans is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 2018 to 2021. He presented his credentials on June 19,2018,to the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. A member of the Republican Party from Georgia,he specializes in litigation,as well as professional,legal and government ethics. Evans is a partner at the global law firm Squire Patton Boggs.
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.
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.
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.
Lt. Gen. Kenneth Richard Wykle is a retired American Army officer and civil servant who served as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration under the second Clinton administration.
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.
Amy Laura Bondurant is an American attorney who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 1997 to 2001. Bondurant was the first woman to represent the United States at the OECD and was also the first woman to serve on the board of Rolls-Royce.
Stephen Alan Owens is an American attorney and politician. Originally from Memphis,Tennessee,he served as chief counsel and state director for U.S. Senator Al Gore before moving to the Phoenix,Arizona area during Gore's unsuccessful presidential run in 1988. He was a fundraiser for the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992,and,from 1993 to 1995,was chair of the Arizona Democratic Party. He was the Democratic nominee for Arizona's 6th congressional district in 1996 and 1998,losing both times to incumbent J. D. Hayworth.
Henry Wilkins III was an American politician and educator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1973 to 1991. Alongside Richard Mays and William Townsend,he was the first African American to serve in the Arkansas Legislature since the Reconstruction era. His wife,Josetta Wilkins,and their son,Henry "Hank" Wilkins IV,also served as state legislators.
