List of members of the National Transportation Safety Board

The five members of the National Transportation Safety Board each serve five-year terms after they are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. One member is designated by the President to serve as Chairman and another as Vice Chairman; each serves a two-year term in those capacities. The Chairman is required to undergo a separate Senate confirmation hearing. When there is no designated Chairman, the Vice Chairman serves as the acting Chairman.[1]

NTSB in September 2017

Members

List of members of the National Transportation Safety Board

Year	Member	Member	Member	Member	Member
1967	Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr.[lower-alpha 1] 1967–69[lower-alpha 2]	John H. Reed[lower-alpha 1] 1967–76[lower-alpha 3]	Oscar M. Laurel 1967–72	Louis M. Thayer 1967–76	Francis H. McAdams 1967–83
1968
1969
	Isabel A. Burgess 1969–76
1970
1971
1972
			William R. Haley 1972–77
1973
1974
1975
1976
	Kay Bailey[lower-alpha 4] 1976–78[lower-alpha 5]	Webster B. Todd, Jr.[lower-alpha 1] 1976–79[lower-alpha 6]		Philip A. Hogue 1976–79
1977
			James B. King[lower-alpha 1] 1977–82[lower-alpha 7]
1978
	Elwood T. Driver[lower-alpha 4] 1978–81[lower-alpha 8]
1979
		Patricia A. Goldman[lower-alpha 4] 1979–88[lower-alpha 9]		G.H. Patrick Bursley 1979–85
1980
1981
	James E. Burnett, Jr.[lower-alpha 1] 1981–91[lower-alpha 10]
1982
			Donald D. Engen 1982–84
1983
					Vernon L. Grose 1983–84
1984
			[vacant]		[vacant]
1985
				John K. Lauber 1985–95
1986
			Joseph T. Nall 1986–89[lower-alpha 11]
1987
					James L. Kolstad[lower-alpha 1] 1987–92[lower-alpha 12]
1988
		Lee V. Dickinson, Jr. 1988–90
1989
			[vacant]
1990
		Susan M. Coughlin[lower-alpha 4] 1990–94[lower-alpha 13]	Christopher A. Hart 1990–93
1991
	John A. Hammerschmidt 1991–2003
1992
					Carl W. Vogt[lower-alpha 1] 1992–94[lower-alpha 14]
1993
			James E. Hall[lower-alpha 1] 1993–2001[lower-alpha 15]
1994
		[vacant]			[vacant]
1995
		Robert T. Francis II[lower-alpha 4] 1995–99[lower-alpha 16]		John J. Goglia 1995–2004
1996
					George W. Black, Jr. 1996–2003
1997
1998
1999
		[vacant]
2000
		Carol J. Carmody[lower-alpha 4] 2000–05[lower-alpha 17]
2001
			Marion C. Blakey[lower-alpha 1] 2001–02[lower-alpha 18]
2002
			[vacant]
2003
	Ellen Engleman Conners[lower-alpha 1] 2003–06[lower-alpha 19]		Mark V. Rosenker[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4] 2003–09[lower-alpha 20]		Richard F. Healing 2003–05
2004
				Deborah A.P. Hersman[lower-alpha 1] 2004–14[lower-alpha 21]
2005
		[vacant]			[vacant]
2006
	Robert L. Sumwalt[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4] 2006+[lower-alpha 22]	Kathryn O'Leary Higgins 2006–09
2007
					Steven R. Chealander 2007–09
2008
2009
		[vacant]	Christopher A. Hart[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4] 2009–17[lower-alpha 23]		[vacant]
2010
		Mark R. Rosekind 2010–14			Earl F. Weener 2010–19
2011
2012
2013
2014
		[vacant]		[vacant]
2015
				T. Bella Dinh-Zarr[lower-alpha 4] 2015–18[lower-alpha 24]
2016
2017
			[vacant]
2018
		Bruce Landsberg[lower-alpha 4] 2018+[lower-alpha 25]	Jennifer Homendy 2018+	[vacant]
2019
				Michael Graham 2020+	Thomas B. Chapman 2020+
2020

Notes

•  Chair 
•  Vice Chair 
•  Chair and Vice Chair 

1. Chair of NTSB.
2. Served as 1st Chair from 1967–69.
3. Served as 2nd Chair from 1970–76.
4. Vice Chair of NTSB.
5. Served as Vice Chair from 1976–78.
6. Served as 3rd Chair of NTSB from 1976–78.[2][3]
7. Served as 4th Chair from 1978–82.[4]
8. Served as Vice Chair from 1978–81.[5]
9. Served as Vice Chair from 1982–88.[6]
10. Served as 5th Chair from 1982–88.[7]
11. Died during a plane crash in 1989.[8]
12. Served as 6th Chair from 1990–92[9] and, as Vice Chair, acting chair from 1988–90.[7]
13. Served as Vice Chair from 1990–94; also Acting Chair in 1994.[10][11]
14. Served as 7th Chair from 1992–94.
15. Served as 8th Chair from 1994–2001.[12]
16. Served as Vice Chair from 1995–99.[13]
17. Served as Vice Chair from 2001–03, including two stints as Acting Chair.[14]
18. Served as 9th Chair from 2001–02.[15]
19. Served as 10th Chair from 2003–05.[16]
20. Served as 11th Chair from 2006–08; also Acting Chair (as Vice Chair) in 2005–06 and 2008–09.[17]
21. Served three terms as 12th Chair from 2009–14.[18]
22. Served as Vice Chair from 2006–08 and as 14th Chair since 2017.[19]
23. Served as Vice Chair from 2009-14, Acting Chair 2014, and as 13th Chair from 2015–17.[20]
24. Served as Vice Chair from 2015–18.[21]
25. Served as Vice Chair since 2018.[22]

References

1. "The Former Board of the NTSB". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
2. "Todd Named NTSB Chairman" (PDF). Office of Pipeline Safety Operations, Advisory Bulletin No. 76-2. United States Department of Transportation, Materials Transportation Bureau. February 1976. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
3. Webster B. Todd, Jr. (2017). "Webster "Dan" Todd: NTSB Chairman, 1976-1978". The National Transportation Safety Board: 50 Years of Advancing Safety (Interview). Interviewed by Ana E. Lopez. Faircount Media Group. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
4. "Our Mission, Role & History: Agency Leadership, James B. King – Director, April 7, 1993 – September 1, 1997". U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
5. "Maj. Elwood 'Woody' T. Driver, USAF". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
6. Higdon, Dave (June 15, 1987). "NTSB back on track with a full force". JOC. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
7. Stephenson, Malvina (October 31, 1989). "Senator Stymies Burnett NTSB Appointment". Tulsa World. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
8. "U.S. official killed in Venezuelan plane crash". UPI News. November 28, 1989. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
9. Phillips, Don (May 8, 1990). "From Confrontation to Persuasion at the NTSB". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
10. "Susan Coughlin joins the board of directors at Atlantic Coast Airlines". The Weekly of Business Aviation. October 27, 1997. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
11. Leffler, Pete (April 14, 1991). "Coughlin getting noticed: U.S. transportation official given high-profile work". The Morning Call. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
12. "James Evan Hall, Chairman". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on January 21, 2003.
13. "Robert Talcott Francis II, Vice Chairman". Archived from the original on January 8, 2000.
14. "Carol J. Carmody, Vice Chairman". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on October 15, 2004.
15. "Marion C. Blakey, Chairman". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on December 22, 2003.
16. "Ellen Engleman Conners, Member". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on May 6, 2005.
17. "Honorable Mark V. Rosenker, Acting Chairman". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on May 14, 2009.
18. "Deborah A. P. Hersman, Chairman". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on January 25, 2014.
19. "Honorable Robert L. Sumwalt". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
20. "Honorable Christopher A. Hart". National Transportation Safety Board.
21. "Honorable T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH". National Transportation Safety Board. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017.
22. "Honorable Bruce Landsberg". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

External links

• Pat Goldman (August 21, 2013). "Chautauqua conversations: For Goldman, a life of politics, service and Chautauqua summers" (Interview). Interviewed by John Ford. The Chautauquan Daily. Retrieved 12 September 2019.