Ex-N.Y. MTA Board Member Picked As Federal Transit Chief
President Bush has nominated former New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member James S. Simpson to be the head of the Federal Transit Administration. Simpson, whose selection was announced by the White House on Jan. 17, is chairman and CEO of Victory Worldwide Transportation Inc., a moving company based in Staten Island, N.Y.
If the Senate confirms the 49-year-old Simpson as FTA administrator, he would succeed Jennifer Dorn, who was approved in October as the U.S. alternate executive director to the World Bank.