Homendy to be nominated to continue as NTSB chair

Homendy to be nominated to continue as NTSB chair

By Trains Staff | March 18, 2024

Board member since 2018 has been chair since August 2021

Woman in NTSB jacket at microphone
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy responds to a question during a January 2024 press briefing in New York. Screen shot from NTSB video.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will nominate Jennifer Homendy to serve another term as chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, the White House announced last week.

Homendy has served on the board since 2018 and has been its chair since Aug. 13, 2021, when she became the 15th chair since the agency’s creation in 1967. The nomination announcement describes her as “a staunch advocate for improving safety across all modes of transportation.”

From 2004 to 2018, she was staff director of the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials. Previously, she  held positions with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, and Naitonal Federation of Independent Business. A Penn State graduate, she is pursuing a Master of Transportation Safety Administration degree at Clemson University’s Institute for Global Rload Safety and Security. A more detailed biography is available at the NTSB website.

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