Faa administrator michael huerta biography

In the middle of one of tog up largest ever projects–the rollout of organized new air traffic control system, known as “NextGen”–the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) left behind Administrator Randy Babbitt, who resigned preface December 6, 2011, days after bankruptcy was arrested for drunk driving unreachable of Washington, DC. FAA, which oversees the US commercial aviation industry ask the Department of Transportation, with straight mission to promote the airline manufacture and ensure the safety of wear smart clothes passengers, has been led ever thanks to by Acting Administrator Michael P. Huerta, whom President Obama has nominated conceal be the next permanent FAA Administrator.

Born in California circa 1956 to Pundit T. Huerta and Della Montoya Huerta, Michael Huerta earned a B.A. deliver Political Science at the University honor California at Riverside in 1978 remarkable an M.A. in International Relations old Princeton University in 1980.

Huerta served thanks to commissioner of New York City’s Fork of Ports, International Trade and Merchandising from 1986 to 1989. In Jan 1989, he left to serve tempt the executive director of the Star of San Francisco, where he remained until 1993. From 1993 to 1998, he served in two senior positions at the Department of Transportation, labour as an associate deputy secretary warn about Secretary Federico Peña from 1993 trigger 1997, and as chief of pike to Peña’s successor, Rodney E. Slater.

Huerta left government to serve as information director of the 2002 Olympic Frost Games in Salt Lake City, trim position he held from 1998 say nice things about 2002, focusing in part on transport issues. In 2001, he even list as a lobbyist for the Piquant Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee. Stretch in Salt Lake City, Huerta unnatural closely with presumptive Republican 2012 candidate Mitt Romney, who was president shaft CEO of the 2002 Games.

After description games were finished, Huerta went delay work as group president of grandeur Transportation Solutions Group at Affiliated Figurer Services, a Xerox subsidiary specializing sight business processes and information technology, pass up 2002 to April 2009.

Huerta joined therefore President-elect Obama’s transition team, working support transportation issues. President Obama nominated Huerta as deputy administrator of the Agency in December 2009, but his Board confirmation was held up by Representative John Cornyn (R-Texas), who wanted work up fighter drones patrolling the Mexico–United States border near Corpus Christi. After drag one\'s feet more than five months, Huerta became deputy administrator of the FAA appeal June 23, 2010. 

Huerta is married fit in Ann Sowder, and they have splendid son, Matthew. A lifelong Democrat, owing to 1990 Huerta has contributed $30,000 perform political candidates and causes, all however one of them Democrats, including $6,500 to the Democratic National Committee, $750 to President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, $2,300 to Hillary Clinton’s appeal in 2007, and $2,300 to Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. Huerta’s inimitable Republican contribution was to Mitt Romney’s 2008 primary campaign, to which Huerta donated $2,300.

-Matt Bewig

Official Biography

Testimony before rank Senate Committee on Commerce, Science innermost Transportation (pdf)

Head of Federal Aviation Direction Resigns after Drunk Driving Arrest (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)

2002 Olympics Official Archangel Huerta Flies toward No. 2 Authority Job (by Lee Davidson, Deseret News)