Spring 2002

Transportation Committee Quarterly

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Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2002 Table of Contents: pages 1 2 3 4 5 6

FAA
Brian Riley has been named the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) assistant administrator for government and industry affairs.  Riley had been director of the FAA's budget office since July 1999. He also was the primary liaison between the FAA and congressional appropriations committees.
Before that, Riley was senior analyst for transportation and science with the Senate Budget Committee from March 1995 to July 1999.  He worked in the office of Sen. Connie Mack as legislative assistant between October 1990 and April 1992 and as projects coordinator from January 1989 to October 1990.  Riley also served a two-year stint as federal legislative officer for the Maryland Department of Transportation from April 1992 to April 1994.  Riley was a parliamentary intern with the British House of Commons from January to May 1987.
Riley holds a bachelor's degree in history and political science from American University.

David Broome has been named the FAA's deputy assistant administrator for government and industry affairs.  Broome had been senior legislative assistant for Sen. Bill Frist since 1995.  Broome also was a staff assistant to the U.S. Senate sergeant at arms from 1994 to 1995.

Broome was deputy finance director with Bill Brock's campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 1994.  He had previously been a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute between 1993 and 1994.  Broome is currently an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.  His previous military service was as a non-commissioned officer with the U.S. Air Force, where he was legislative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force from 1991 to 1993, and a member of the Presidential Honor Guard from 1989 to 1991.

Broome has a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from American University.

FHWA
Charles D. (Chip) Nottingham has been appointed associate administrator

Appointments

FMC
Rebecca Dye has been nominated to succeed John Moran at the Federal Maritime Commission for the remainder of Moran's five-year term expiring June 30, 2005.  Ms. Dye is currently counsel to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, a position she has held since 1995.  From 1987 to 1995, she worked as minority counsel for the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee.  Ms. Dye received both a bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

FTA
Robert Jamison has been appointed deputy administrator for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).  Mr. Jamison joined FTA from the American Red Cross, where he served as senior operations officer since 1999.  His management experience also includes 13 years at United Parcel Service, where his responsibilities ranged from operations supervisor to oversight of foreign operation infrastructure investment to management of systems and infrastructure for the Washington metropolitan area.  Mr. Jamison is a 1987 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Memphis.

Robert J. Tuccillo has been named FTA's deputy associate administrator for budget and policy.  Mr. Tuccillo previously served in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  A senior program examiner in OMB's Environment Branch since 1993, he helped formulate the administration's policies on climate change.  Before that, he served in similar OMB posts relating to the Departments of Interior and Education and as an analyst at the Department of Education dealing with student aid programs.

MARAD
Robert B. Ostrom has been appointed chief counsel for the Maritime Administration (MARAD).  Ostrom has more than 30 years of experience as an attorney, having served as a senior and man

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for policy at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).  Immediately prior to joining the FHWA, Nottingham served as counsel to the House Committee on Government Reform.  From 1999-2002, he served as Virginia's Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and vice chairman of the Commonwealth Transportation Board in Virginia.  As chief executive officer of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Nottingham managed a workforce of more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget of $3 billion.
Previously, Nottingham served as chief of staff for U.S. Reps. Bob Goodlatte and Tom Davis of Virginia.  In addition, he held legislative positions in the private sector and at the Department of Justice.  Nottingham holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law.

William N. (Bill) Outlaw has been appointed the FHWA's director for public affairs.  He joins the agency after nine years as director of communication for The Road Information Program (TRIP), a non-profit transportation research group.  Outlaw also has worked as press secretary to U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (SC), as a press officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development and as press secretary for former Delaware Gov. Pete DuPont's 1988 presidential campaign.
Outlaw was elected a vice president of the Washington chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and received the Diamond Award in June 2001 for his professional service to the chapter.  In addition, he is an adjunct instructor at The George Washington University's Center for Professional Development and is a journalism instructor at the Institute for Experiential Learning.
Outlaw holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in communication from the University of South Carolina.  He served in the U.S. Air Force, including in Vietnam.