Elaine Lan Chao is an American businesswoman and former government official who served as United States secretary of labor in the administration of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 and as United States secretary of transportation in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,Chao was the first Asian American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. She resigned as transportation secretary after the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole is an American attorney,author,and politician who served as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party,she previously served in five presidential administrations,including as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1987 and as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Reagan's successor,George H. W. Bush,from 1989 until 1990. Dole then left government to serve as president of the American Red Cross from 1991 to 1999;she departed from that position to seek the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential election but eventually withdrew from the race.
James Addison Baker III is an American attorney,diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 10th White House chief of staff and 67th United States secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. secretary of state before returning as the 16th White House chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush.
John William Snow is an American economist,attorney,and businessman who is the former CEO of CSX Corporation and served as the 73rd United States secretary of the treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced Secretary Paul H. O'Neill on February 3,2003,and was succeeded by Henry Paulson on July 3,2006. Snow submitted a letter of resignation on May 30,2006,effective "after an orderly transition period for my successor." Snow announced on June 29,2006,that he had completed his last day on the job;Robert M. Kimmitt served as acting secretary until Paulson was sworn in. Snow has since worked as chairman of Cerberus Capital Management.
Samuel Knox Skinner is an American politician,lawyer,and businessman. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Prior to the Bush administration,Skinner served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President Gerald R. Ford from 1975 to 1977,succeeding James R. Thompson.
Benjamin Richard Civiletti was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney General during the Carter administration,from 1979 to 1981. The first Italian American to lead the U.S. Department of Justice,he previously served as the Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Later he was a senior partner in the Baltimore-based law firm of Venable LLP. He specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations working at Venable LLP.
Alan Stephenson Boyd was an American attorney and transportation executive who led several large corporations and also served the U.S. Government in various transportation-related positions. He was the first United States Secretary of Transportation,appointed by Lyndon Johnson. Additionally,he served in executive positions with the Civil Aeronautics Board,the U.S. Department of Commerce,and was a president of Amtrak.
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is a unit of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). It was created in 2005 to advance transportation science,technology,and analysis,as well as improve the coordination of transportation research within the department and throughout the transportation community.
Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr.,generally known as Drew Lewis,was an American businessman and politician from the state of Pennsylvania. He was United States Secretary of Transportation in the first portion of the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan,and is best known for presiding over the firing of the striking U.S. air traffic controllers in 1981.
Michael Elias Baroody is an American lobbyist.
Jack Callihan Parnell is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. He served during the George H. W. Bush administration from 1989 until 1991. He had been Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1987 to 1989,as director of the California Department of Fish and Game from 1984 to 1987,and as deputy secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1983 to 1984. He was elected to the board of directors of the Neogen Corporation in October 1993,and as chairman of the board in October 2001. He is also a government relations consultant at Kahn Soares &Conway,LLP.
Frank J. Donatelli is a Republican Party political consultant and lawyer.
Mari Maseng Will is a Republican adviser who has worked for President Ronald Reagan,Senator Robert Dole and Governor Rick Perry. She was also an adviser to Scott Walker's presidential campaign and Ted Cruz’s and Tim Scott’s presidential campaigns.
Rebecca Gernhardt Cox is an American business executive and former Director of the Office of Public Liaison during the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
Roman Popadiuk is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H. W. Bush,from 1992 to 1993. From 2015 until 2017,he was a principal at Morgan,Lewis &Bockius LLP's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting,and prior to 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
The L. Welch Pogue Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aviation was created by Aviation Week &Space Technology to be presented to an individual who is "considered a visionary and a preeminent leader of contemporary aviation."
The Eno Center for Transportation is a non-profit,independent organization based in Washington,D.C.,with the stated mission of shaping public debate on critical multimodal transportation issues and to build an innovative network of transportation professionals. The Center was created and endowed in Westport,Connecticut,by William Phelps Eno,a pioneer in the field of traffic control.
Alfred S. Regnery is an American conservative lawyer,former magazine publisher,and writer.
Robert Emmet Lighthizer is an American attorney and government official who was the United States Trade Representative in the Donald Trump administration from 2017 to 2021.
