William Millar, William R. Mooney
CHICAGO, IL—William Millar, president of APTA from 1996 until his retirement in 2011, has joined Lochner. He will work with the firm’s operations and leadership teams in a senior advisory role.

James W. Bishop, P.E., president and chief executive officer of Lochner, cited Millar’s “stellar reputation as a world-class leader and contributor to the rail and transit industry.”

William R. Mooney has joined Lochner as a vice president and one of the leaders of the firm’s rail- and transit-related endeavors, including alternative delivery (design–build and public–private partnerships), Bus Rapid Transit, Class I railroads, commuter, freight, high-speed, structures, and urban rail.

Prior to joining Lochner, Mooney served more than 33 years with the Chicago Transit Authority, where he was appointed chief operations officer in 2007.

Timothy (TJ) Thorn
CINCINNATI, OH—Cincinnati Metro has named Timothy (TJ) Thorn its system safety director. In this role, he will lead and manage the industrial hygiene, environmental and safety programs within the organization.

Thorn has more than 25 years of experience in environmental health and safety within the manufacturing and transportation industries. He was previously environment health and safety group leader for Pilkington North America, an automotive supplier in Versailles, KY. Thorn also worked for more than three years at LexTran in Lexington, KY, where he held positions including assistant general manager and director of risk management and special projects.

Todd Swales, Fred Andersky
ELYRIA, OH—Todd Swales has joined Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC in the newly created position of director of fleet sales.
 Swales comes to Bendix from Meritor, serving as manager of field sales and service for Meritor WABCO since 2010. His other positions at Meritor included senior manager of global customer satisfaction and product line manager.

Also, Bendix announced the promotion of Fred Andersky to director of government affairs for the business organization. Andersky joined the company in 2005 as marketing manager of electronics and most recently was director of marketing for the controls group.

Marty Thies, Ed Hildreth, Nathaniel Jones, Ryan Warner
OLYMPIA, WA—Intercity Transit has named Marty Thies to chair its board. Thies, the most senior of the board’s citizen representatives, has served the agency since 2007 and was vice chair for the past two years.

Tumwater City Councilmember Ed Hildreth, the board’s new vice chair, has been a board member since 2009.

Newly appointed board members are City of Olympia Councilmember Nathaniel Jones, an asset manager for the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, and citizen representative Ryan Warner, statewide Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator for Washington State DOT.

Linda S. Watson
AUSTIN, TX—Linda S. Watson, president & chief executive officer of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been named to the board of directors of the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI).

Watson will serve a four-year term.

The Hall of Honor is located at TTI’s Gibb Gilchrist building in the Texas A&M University Research Park in College Station, TX.

Richard M. (Rick) Paczewski
MALVERN, PA—Johnson Matthey has promoted Richard M. (Rick) Paczewski to process industries sales manager for the firm’s Stationary Emissions Control (SEC) group in North America.

Most recently, Paczewski was engineering manager for the SEC Group, which he joined in 2005. He managed a team of electrical and mechanical engineers responsible for the design, fabrication, installation, commissioning and field service of emissions control equipment for stationary engines and locomotives. From 2001 to 2005, he worked in Johnson Matthey’s Gas Purification Technology business as quality manager.

Dick Ruddell
FORT WORTH, TX—Dick Ruddell, president and executive director of the Fort Worth Transportation Authority), has been elected president of the South West Transit Association.

Ruddell is an at-large director on the APTA Board of Directors and serves as vice president for Metro agencies on the Texas Transit Association board.

Ab Jenkins
SAN DIEGO, CA—Cubic Transportation Systems has appointed Ab Jenkins as its general counsel and secretary.

Jenkins has worked for Cubic Corporation since June 2003, most recently as senior counsel of ethics and compliance. He acted as primary legal counsel for Cubic Global Tracking Solutions and Cubic Security Systems in addition to managing the Cubic Corporation Ethics and Compliance program and providing legal support to Cubic Corporation and all its subsidiaries, including acquisitions, benefits, real estate. and other corporate related support.