New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated former Federal Transit Administrator (FTA) James S. Simpson to the transportation commissioner post and chairman of the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) Board of Directors. In addition, James Weinstein, a past state transportation commissioner, was named executive director of NJ Transit.

Weinstein, who comes to NJ Transit after serving as vice president of AECOM, was commissioner of New Jersey DOT and chairman of NJ Transit from 1998 to 2002, during the administration of Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. In 2002, he became senior vice president of Northeast Corridor Amtrak. He also served two years as a commissioner on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Simpson, whose nomination requires approval by the New Jersey State Senate, served as FTA administrator from 2005 to 2008 and is the chairman and co-founder of Spartan Solutions, an infrastructure management company, and chairman of Victory Worldwide Transportation, an international transportation company he joined as a tractor-trailer driver while in college. Simpson earlier served 10 years as commissioner of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, appointed by then-New York Gov. George Pataki.

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