Nomination of Robert Earl Farris To Be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Earl Farris to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the Department of Transportation. He would succeed Ray A. Barnhart.

Since 1986 Mr. Farris has been Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC, and is currently a member of the board of consultants of the Eno Foundation for Transportation. Prior to this, he was commissioner of the Department of Transportation for the State of Tennessee, and chairman of the National Council of Public Works Improvement, 1985-1986.

Mr. Farris attended the United States Marine Corps Radar-Radio Technical School; Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; and the University of Virginia Transportation Executive Institute. He served in the United States Marine Corps, 1946-1952. He was born March 7, 1928, in Etowah, TN. Mr. Farris is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC.