The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) in Jacksonville, FL, has selected Nathaniel P. Ford Sr. as its next executive director/chief executive officer. He succeeds Michael Blaylock.

Ford, managing principal of the Ford Transportation Group LLC in Atlanta, has 29 years of transportation experience. He began his career as a train conductor for MTA New York City Transit and later served the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, becoming general manager/chief executive officer in 2000; and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency as chief executive officer.

He is a former APTA secretary-treasurer who currently is secretary-treasurer of the American Public Transportation Foundation and a member of numerous APTA committees.