FOR RELEASE
Contact: Janie Sheng (202) 245-0221
01/04/2008 (Friday)
No. 08-01


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ANNE K. QUINLAN APPOINTED ACTING SECRETARY OF SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD


Surface Transportation Board Chairman Charles D. Nottingham today announced that Anne K. Quinlan, Esq., has been appointed the Board's Acting Secretary, effective January 4, 2008.


Ms. Quinlan will perform the duties of the Board Secretary, Vernon A. Williams, Esq., who retired from the Board on January 3, 2008. Ms. Quinlan began her career with the Board's predecessor agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), in 1978. She served as an Assistant Secretary from February 1993-December 1995 at the ICC, and from January 1996 through March 2000 at the Board and, most recently, as an Attorney Advisor/Ethics Officer in the Board's Office of Economics, Environmental Analysis and Administration.


The Board's Secretary serves as the agency's clerk and is responsible for recordkeeping and the issuance of the Board's decisions and other legal documents.


The Secretary may be reached by contacting the Secretary to the Board, Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20423-0001, or by telephoning (202) 245-0245 or e-mailing Board.Secretary@stb.dot.gov.


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