Category: Winter 2009 Pre-event
Winter 2009 Pre-event
Yvonne B. Miller
Senator for the 5th District of Virginia
Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee
Yvonne B. Miller, a Democrat, was the first African American woman to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates when she was elected in 1984. She was also the first African American woman to serve in the State Senate when elected in 1988. She has the longest legislative service of any woman in the Senate and ranks fourth in the Senate for seniority.
Pierce R. Homer
Secretary of Transportation
Commonwealth of Virginia
Pierce R. Homer was reappointed Virginia's secretary of transportation by Gov. Tim Kaine in January 2006, having also served in the position under Gov. Mark Warner. As secretary, Homer oversees management and budgeting for the departments of Transportation, Motor Vehicles, Aviation, and Rail and Public Transportation as well as for the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board and the Virginia Port Authority. He also serves as chairman of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
Philip A. Shucet
President
The Philip A. Shucet Co.
Donald Z. Goldberg
President
D.D. Jones Transfer and Warehouse Co. Inc.
Dwight L. Farmer
Executive director
Hampton Roads Planning District Commission
Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization
Dwight Farmer joined the staff of the Southeastern Virginia Planning District Commission in 1978 as chief transportation engineer. In 1990 when the Southeastern and Peninsula commissions merged, Farmer was appointed director of transportation. In 1988, he became deputy executive director, overseeing transportation and emergency management. In 2008, the commission board of directors appointed him executive director.
