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About STB > Board Members
The Board is authorized to have three members, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, each with a five-year term of office.
Current Members:
Chairman Charles D. “Chip” Nottingham
Charles D. Nottingham was sworn in on August 14, 2006, as a Board Member for a term ending December 31, 2010. Chairman Nottingham brings more than 15 years of legislative, state government, and Federal executive branch experience to his job at the Board. Since 1998, his career has been focused on finding solutions and implementing innovation in the surface transportation arena.
Chairman Nottingham’s tenure at the Board has been marked by significant reforms and initiatives aimed at making the agency more accessible, transparent, and efficient. Under his leadership, the Board has: modernized the way it calculates the freight rail industry’s cost of capital; streamlined the large rate case process; developed practical and feasible means for freight rail customers to bring small- and medium-sized rate cases; improved the transparency of railroads’ fuel surcharge practices and declared certain fuel surcharge practices unreasonable; improved the transparency of transactions involving contractual interchange commitments, or “paper barriers;” improved the accessibility of the Board’s Rail Customer and Public Assistance Program; established the Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee to provide guidance on the reliable delivery of coal and liquid biofuels; and ended more than 70 years of controversial exemptions from the antitrust laws related to motor carrier industry rate bureaus.
From 2002-2006, Mr. Nottingham served as the Associate Administrator for Policy and Governmental Affairs at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), working in the areas of policy development and analysis, legislation, Congressional affairs, highway funding and system performance analysis, and international programs. He played a leading role in developing the Administration’s surface transportation reauthorization proposal in 2002 and 2003, and in advising Congress during development and enactment of the SAFETEA-LU surface reauthorization act of 2005.
Between 1998 and 2002, Mr. Nottingham served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation and then Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner for Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore. In his capacity as Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner between 1999 and 2002, he served as the chief executive officer of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), managing more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $3 billion.
Mr. Nottingham also has served as Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Government Reform, Counsel and Chief of Staff to Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, and Chief of Staff to Congressman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia.
Mr. Nottingham is a licensed attorney in Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and his law degree from George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.
Vice Chairman Francis P. Mulvey
Vice Chairman Mulvey was sworn in as the eighth Member of the Surface Transportation Board (Board) on June 2, 2004 (Click here for pictures of Vice Chairman Mulvey's swearing-in ceremony). He was nominated to the Board by President George W. Bush on November 17, 2003, for a four-year term expiring on December 31, 2007. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 21, 2004. President Bush nominated Vice Chairman Mulvey to a second term of office on November 30, 2007. On December 19, 2007, the Senate confirmed the Vice Chairman's second term as a Member of the Board for a term of office ending December 31, 2012.
At the time of his appointment to the Board, Vice Chairman Mulvey was Staff Director for Railroad Subcommittee and Staff Director for Pipelines and Hazardous Materials for the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He was responsible for all railroad legislative matters for the Ranking Democratic Member of the Committee and served as advisor to the Ranking Member on overall transportation policy issues.
Other positions held include Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Rail, Transit, and Special Programs, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Office of the Inspector General; Assistant Director for Social Security and Pension Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office; Assistant Director for Competition, Economic, and Regulatory Analyses in the Transportation Issues Area, U.S. General Accounting Office; Director of Economic Research for the NY State Legislative Commission on Solid Waste Management; Programs Manager, National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board; and Vice-President for Research, American Bus Association.
In addition, he has served as an Adjunct Faculty member at the R.H. Smith School of Business and Public Administration, Univ. of Maryland. He has also taught economics and statistics at Northeastern University, Wheaton College, and Bowling Green State University.
Vice Chairman Mulvey holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington State University (1974); a B.S. in Economics from New York University (1966); and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley (1968).
Vice Chairman Mulvey and his wife, Petra, live in Maryland. They have one son, Conor, who resides in Washington, D.C.
Board Member W. Douglas Buttrey
Board Member Buttrey, a Republican from Tennessee, was officially sworn in as the seventh Member of the Surface Transportation Board (Board) on May 28, 2004. His ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Senate took place on July 20, 2004. (Click here for photos of Board Member Buttrey's swearing in as a Member of the Board in a U.S. Senate Ceremony on July 20, 2004). He was nominated to the Board by President George W. Bush on November 17, 2003 , for a five-year term expiring on December 31, 2008. He became Chairman on January 5, 2006.
At the time of his appointment to the Board, Board Member Buttrey was a private consultant in the security and biotech areas. He worked for Federal Express Corporation for 22 years in various positions, including 15 years as a senior corporate lobbyist. Before joining Federal Express, he served as Counsel to the Aviation Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Prior to that position, he was an Attorney/Advisor in the General Counsel's office at the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Board Member Buttrey holds a B.S. from Tennessee Technological University (1968), and a J.D. from University of Memphis School of Law (1971). He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Tennessee Bar.
Board Member Buttrey and his wife, Margaret, now live in Gainesville, Virginia. They have one son, Nathan, who lives with his family in Tennessee.
Click here to see photos of then Commissioner Buttrey’s September 18-20, 2006 visit to Fairbanks and Delta Junction, Alaska, and of his visit with Alaska Railroad officials.
Click here to see photos of then Member Buttrey’s August 1-3, 2006 visit with North Dakota grain-industry participants and his visit to grain-industry sites within that state.
Click here to see a photo of then Chairman Buttrey speaking at the Transportation Table, at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., on May 12, 2006.
Click here to see the March 30, 2006 photo of then Chairman Buttrey speaking at the South East Area Rail Shippers (SEARS) Conference at Hilton Head, SC.
Click here for photos of then Chairman Buttrey's February 21, 2006 tour of Central Montana rail infrastructure.
Click here for photos of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey’s September 30 - October 5, 2005 Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) inspection tour (he was Vice Chairman at that time) with the other two STB Members; meetings with senior officers of the CPR and discussions with members of the Canadian Transportation Agency.
Click here for photos of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey’s September 20, 2005 trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to view destruction brought to CSX Transportation, Inc.’s railroad property and assets and to the surrounding area by Hurricane Katrina.
Click here for a photo of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey's June 26, 2005 tour of the Canadian National facilities in Montreal, Canada.
Click here for photos of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey's June 24, 2005 visit to Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program (CREATE) sites.
Click here for photos of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey's June 13, 2005 visit to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to deliver a speech before the American Lime Association.
Click here for photos of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey's April 19, 2005 tour of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) facilities, at the Port of Savannah, in connection with his attending the China Trade and Logistics Conference in Savannah sponsored in part by the GPA.
Click here for photos related to then Vice-Chairman Buttrey’s facilities tour following his December 1, 2004 speech before the Nebraska Grains Conference in North Platte, Nebraska, and his December 2, 2004 tour of the Union Pacific Railroad Company’s Bailey Yard in North Platte.
Click here for photos of then Vice-Chairman Buttrey's visit to the Powder River Basin on August 2-4, 2004.
