Industry Veterans Appointed to US DOT Deputy Roles

nuria — Fernandez has been appointed deputy administrator of the FTA. *Photo courtesy of APTA*

Several members of the A/E/C industry have been appointed to key positions in U.S. Dept. of Transportation departments.

Amit Bose will reprise his Obama Administration-era role as Deputy Administrator for the Federal Railroad Administration. Bose will leave his vice president position at HNTB.

Nuria Fernandez, Deputy Administrator for the Federal Transit Administration, was CEO for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, CEO and general manager of the VTA, and was a senior vice president at CH2M Hill. She has also served as chair of the American Public Transportation Association.

A. Bradley Mims returns to the Federal Aviation Administration, where he served in the Clinton Administration. The aviation veteran has worked for Parsons Brinckerhoff and Booz/Allen/Hamilton. He was also president and CEO of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials.

Stephanie Pollack comes to the Federal Highway Administration after a six-year stint leading the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation.

Polly Trottenberg has been nominated as deputy U.S. Dept. of Transportation Secretary after seven years as New York City’s transportation commissioner.

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Aileen Cho, ENR's deputy editor for infrastructure, is a born-again Angeleno and recovering New Yorker. She studied English and theater at Occidental College, where a reporter teaching the one existing journalism course encouraged her to apply for the LA Times Minority Editing Training Program. Her journalism training led to her first stories about transportation, working as a cub reporter with the Greenwich Time. She has been honored, solo or with ENR colleagues, with several journalism awards. For ENR, she has traveled the world, clambering over bridges, touring airports, and descending into tunnels. She is a regular at transportation conferences, where she finds that airport and mass transit engineers really know how to have fun (bridge engineers aren't far behind). She is always eager to hop on another flight because there are so many interesting projects and people, and she gets tired of throwing her cats off her computer in her home office in Eagle Rock, California. She is a very conflicted Mets/Dodgers fan.

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