Gene McCormick
McCormick, a registered professional engineer, spent nearly 50 years in transportation planning, design, construction and operations in both the public and private sectors. He was Parsons Brinckerhoff’s (PB) principal-in-charge or project manager on highway, bridge and airport projects across America and the world. For nearly seven years he was project manager during design and construction activities at the 12-lane Woodrow Wilson Bridge near Washington, D.C., a $2.5 billion project completed on time and on budget.
Prior to joining PB, McCormick was Federal Highway deputy administrator under President George H.W. Bush. He spearheaded development of the Bush administration’s highway/transit reauthorization proposal, signed into law in 1991 and known as the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. McCormick also spent 25 years with the Illinois Department of Transportation as deputy transportation secretary and director of the office of planning and programming.
He was co-chairman of the ARTBA “TEA-21 Task Force,” which developed the association’s legislative blueprint for the surface transportation reauthorization bill—SAFETEA-LU—signed by President George W. Bush in August 2005.
