Martin Marietta Materials has welcomed Anthony R. Foxx – former transportation secretary under the Obama Administration – to its board of directors.
Foxx is to serve on Martin Marietta’s finance committee.
Foxx is currently chief policy officer and advisor to the president and chief executive officer of Lyft, which he joined in October 2018. Prior to that, he served as the seventeenth US secretary of transportation from 2013 to 2017.
During this role, Foxx led an agency with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget that set out to ensure that America maintains a safe and efficient transportation system.
Under his leadership, the US Department of Transportation (USDoT) established a policy framework for the safe integration of autonomous vehicles and leveraged $350 million in funding to demonstrate how smart technology can change cities and local communities.
Additionally, Foxx developed the Obama Administration’s first surface transportation bill and worked on a bipartisan basis to get its congressional incarnation, the FAST Act, passed. He launched the USDoT’s Smart City Challenge, in which more than 70 cities developed strategies to incorporate new technologies into their transportation networks.
From 2009 to 2013, Foxx served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. He announced the creation of more than 4,000 jobs, saw the completion of a new runway at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and led a delegation of Charlotte business leaders to meet with senior White House officials to press for economic recovery spending measures.
