The President today announced his intention to nominate James H. Burnley IV to be Deputy Secretary of Transportation. He would succeed Darrell M. Trent.
Since May 1983, Mr. Burnley has been serving as General Counsel at the Department of Transportation. Previously he was Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice in 1982-1983; Director of VISTA in 1981-1982; partner in the law firm of Turner, Enochs, Foster, Sparrow & Burnley in Greensboro, N.C, in 1975-1981; and associate in the firm of Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard in Greensboro in 1973-1975.
He served on the commercial panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association and was a member of the committee on administrative law of the North Carolina Bar Association.
Mr. Burnley graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1970) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1973). He is married, has one child, and resides in Falls Church, Va. He was born July 30, 1948, in Greensboro, N.C.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of James H. Burnley IV To Be Deputy Secretary of Transportation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261869