LA Metro Grabs US Transit Head; Va. Tech Engineering Dean Heads to Texas

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Less than one year after the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority hired away CEO Philip Washington from that same job at Denver's Regional Transportation District, he has made a second high-level poach of his own in six months. Metro said on March 3 that Therese McMillan, acting administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), will join the California transit agency as chief planning officer. She was awaiting U.S. Senate Banking Committee permanent confirmation to the FA top job amid increased tension between the White House and Congress. President Obama nominated McMillan in 2014. Top committee Democrat, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, told Politico on March 4 that he "can't blame" McMillan for taking the L.A. role. She joined FTA in 2009 as deputy administrator. McMillan also was a top policy executive at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which serves the San Francisco Bay Area.