WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Surface Transportation Board (Board) Chairman
Linda J. Morgan announced that on January 3, 2002, the Board
designated Commissioner Wayne O. Burkes as its Vice Chairman. He
succeeds former Commissioner William Clyburn, Jr., who served in
that position during 2001. The Board's Vice Chairmanship rotates
among Commissioners on an annual basis.
Vice Chairman
Burkes, the fifth Board Member since the agency's creation in 1996,
was nominated to the Board by President Clinton, and was confirmed
by the Senate on February 22, 1999, for a term expiring December 31,
2002. Vice Chairman Burkes received his B.S., M.Ed., and LL.D.
degrees from Mississippi College, and a M.Div. Degree from the New
Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also a graduate of the
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Air University's Air War
College, and the Transportation Executive Institute of the
University of Virginia.