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President Obama nominated Charlotte, N.C. mayor Anthony Foxx yesterday to be the next Secretary of Transportation. He will succeed current Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ainalerts/2013-01-29/dot-secretary-ray-lahood-leaving-post">announced in January he would leave the post</a> once a successor is chosen. Under Foxx, Charlotte has developed a facility connecting freight from the city to global ports, along with a third parallel runway at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport.


Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said he will move Foxx’s nomination in the committee as soon as possible. “He can be a driving force in the federal effort to take advantage of transportation opportunities,” Rockefeller said. House Transportation chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) added, “I am pleased the President has put forward a candidate to lead the U.S. Department of Transportation, and I congratulate Mayor Foxx upon his nomination.”


Foxx is a lawyer by training and was elected mayor in 2009 and re-elected in 2011. He served as a member of the Charlotte City Council from 2005 to 2009 while practicing at the law firm Hunton &amp; Williams.

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