Commission Members

Bill Cavanaugh (Co-Chair) (Capital Area MPO)

Former chairman, chief executive officer, and president, Progress Energy, Inc.

Chairman of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO)

Member of the National Academy of Engineering

George Cianciolo, Ph.D. (Co-Chair) (DCHC MPO)

Member, Chapel Hill Planning Board

Member, Chapel Hill Community Design Commission

Former chair and member, Chapel Hill Transportation Board (six years)

Former member, University of North Carolina Leadership Advisory Committee

Associate Professor of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center

Robert ("Bo") Glenn (Co-Vice-Chair) (DCHC MPO)

Chair, Durham Open Space and Trails Commission

Member, Durham Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission

Member, Tarwheels Bicycle Club

Served on the Durham Housing Authority for over 20 years

Smedes York (Co-Vice-Chair) (Capital Area MPO)

President of York Properties, Inc.

Mayor, City of Raleigh, 1979-1983

Raleigh City Councilman, District E, 1977 to 1979.
Board Chairman York Simpson Underwood and McDonald-York

Past chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry

Past chairman N.C. State University Board of Trustees

Board of Directors of the Research Triangle Foundation

YMCA of the Triangle

North Carolina Amateur Sports

Trustee of the Urban Land Institute

Founding Co-Chair of Regional Transportation Alliance

Cassandra Atkinson, Ph.D. (DCHC MPO)

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration

Director of Community Research and Technical Assistance Initiative

Project Director, Transportation Management Bachelor's Degree Program

North Carolina Central University  

Tom Bradshaw (Capital Area MPO)

Mayor, City of Raleigh 1971-1973

Secretary of N.C. Dept. of Transportation, 1976 - 1979

Member – Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of Wake County

Managing Director, Public Finance Dept., CitiGroup Global Markets, Inc.

Gerry Cohen (Capital Area MPO)

Director of Legislative Drafting, NC General Assembly

Former Member-Chapel Hill Town Council

Former Member-Chapel Hill Transportation Board

Daniel Coleman (Capital Area MPO)

Contractor

Livable Streets Partnership

Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association

Trish Dowty (Capital Area MPO)

Vice President of the Corporate Services Division, SAS

Property, Procurement, and Logistics Management, CTI Data and Denelcor, Inc., Board of Directors, Cary Chamber of Commerce

Carolyn Elfland (DCHC MPO)

Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Services - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University's transportation planning, transportation demand management, and transit functions are within her area of responsibility; member of the partnership committee that guides the Chapel Hill Transit system; represented the University on the 15-501 and 54 corridor studies

Greg Flynn (Capital Area MPO)
Architect
NC Dept of Public Instruction School Planning
WakeUP Wake County
Formerly, NC Division of Forest Resources

Chris Harder (DCHC MPO)

Vice chair, Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA) Board

Senior Budget Analyst, Office of the Governor, State Budget and Management

Former Congressional Fellow for Rep. Earl Blumenauer (Portland, Oregon)

Masters in Regional Planning and Public Administration

Mike Hendren (Capital Area MPO)

Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce. 

Board of Directors, Chair of the Government Affairs Committee

Cal Horton (DCHC MPO)

Former manager for Town of Chapel Hill; a regional leader on transportation issues.

Jodi LaFreniere (Capital Area MPO)

Morrisville Chamber of Commerce President

Member - Business Alliance Leadership Team

Member Regional Transportation Alliance

Jennifer Lewis (Capital Area MPO)

Transportation Planner, The Louis Berger Group

Graduate Research Asst., Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC-CH

Rusine Mitchell-Sinclair (Capital Area MPO)

Vice President at Large - North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association (NCEITA); Regional Transportation Alliance - Vice chair of Regional Leadership

Senior State Executive, VP Strategy & Implementation, Global IT Delivery – IBM

Sam Nichols Jr. (DCHC MPO)

Senior Vice President, First Citizens Bank; Durham Chamber of Commerce, Transportation and Economic Development Committees

Sandy Ogburn (DCHC MPO)

Member of the Board of Directors of several organizations in the Durham community, including the Durham Community Land Trust and the West End Community Center

Former member of the Durham City Council, the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO, and the Triangle Transit Authority Board of Trustees

Mack Paul (Capital Area MPO)

Attorney, Kennedy Covington

Past President – Triangle Tomorrow

Former Associate General Counsel for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC

Bernadette Pelissier, Ph.D. (DCHC MPO)

Chair, Orange Chatham Group of the Sierra Club

Member, Orange County Planning Board

Member, Orange County Commission for the Environment

Former member, University of North Carolina Leadership Advisory Committee

Roger Perry (DCHC MPO)

Chair, Triangle Tomorrow

President, East West Partners (member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Transportation Alliance)

Member, Board of Trustees, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Served on the Board of Visitors of UNC and Executive Committee of the Center for Real Estate at UNC's Kenan Flagler School; Past chair, Triangle United Way

Frank Price (Capital Area MPO)

President of F. L. Price & Associates

Chair – Clayton Planning Board

Tim Reed (Capital Area MPO)

Conservation Co-Chair of the Capital Group Sierra Club

Holly Reid (DCHC MPO)

President, Board of Trustees, Eno River Association

Co-Founder, Walkable Hillsborough Coalition

Former member, Orange County's Economic Development District

Transportation Task Force

Warren Sawicki (Capital Area MPO)

Fuquay-Varina - Chamber of Commerce

Retired Manufacturing Executive

Mike Shiflett (DCHC MPO)

Member, Durham Inter-Neighborhood Council, Northgate Park; member, Board of Directors for the Coordinating Council for Senior Citizens President and CEO, American Labor (member of the Durham Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Transportation Alliance); member, Durham Chamber of Commerce, Transportation Committee; served on US 40 HOV task force, Durham Comprehensive Plan, Travel Demand Ordinance Task Force

Frank Timberlake (Capital Area MPO)

R.F. Timberlake and Company

President Carolinas/Virginia Chapter NAMA (National Agri-Marketing Association)

Ed Willingham (Capital Area MPO)

2006-07 chair of the Regional Transportation Alliance

Executive Vice President for First Citizens Bank's Triangle Region

Ex-Officio Members

Joe Bryan (Capital Area MPO)

Chair, Capital Area MPO TAC

Commissioner, Wake County

John Brantley (Capital Area MPO)

Director, RDU International Airport

Commission member – Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of Wake County

*James Carnahan (DCHC MPO)

Founder of the Village Project

Town of Carrboro Planning Board

UNC, Carolina North, Leadership Advisory Committee

Alice Gordon (DCHC MPO)

Chair, DCHC MPO TAC

Commissioner, Orange County

Becky Heron (DCHC MPO)

Vice Chair, DCHC MPO TAC

Commissioner, Durham County

Mack McKrell (Capital Area MPO)

Long-time regional transit User

Cary Resident working in Durham (IBM / RTP)

Charles Meeker (Capital Area MPO)

Vice Chair, Capital Area MPO TAC

Mayor, City of Raleigh

Rick Weddle (Capital Area MPO)

President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation

Vice Chair for Governmental Affairs - Regional Transportation Alliance

Commission member – Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of Wake County

*Executive Director (DCHC MPO)

Chatham County Economic Development Corporation

*Subject to approval by (Capital Area MPO)

The official Web site for work of the Special Transit Advisory Commission and the Transit Blueprint Process is: www.transitblueprint.org.

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