Victor Mendez

Victor Mendez
3rd Deputy Secretary of Transportation Acting: December 27, 2013 – July 24, 2014*
Incumbent
Assumed office July 24, 2014
Preceded by	John D. Porcari
Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration
In office July 17, 2009 – July 24, 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Thomas Madison
Succeeded by	Gregory G. Nadeau
Personal details
Alma mater	University of Texas, El Paso Arizona State University, Tempe

Victor Mendez is the current Deputy Secretary of Transportation in 2014 and was previously sworn in on July 17, 2009, as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the 18th person to hold this position.

Mendez was previously Director of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), beginning in November 2001. Mendez started at ADOT in 1985 as a transportation engineer. He was later named deputy state engineer with ADOT's Valley Transportation Group, where he provided leadership for the Phoenix area's multi-billion dollar freeway system. He worked his way up the agency, becoming Deputy Director in 1999 and Acting Director four months before his appointment as Director.

In 2006, Mendez was elected president of both the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), its national counterpart. He chaired its Standing Committee on Research, the Operations Council of the Standing Committee on Highways, and the oversight group for the Transportation Research Board Long-Term Pavement Performance program.

Mendez earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MBA from Arizona State University. Before joining ADOT, Mendez worked for the U.S. Forest Service as an engineer in Oregon.

Deputy Secretary of Transportation

On May 15, 2014 President Obama submitted his nomination to the Senate. On July 24, 2014 Mendez was confirmed by voice vote as the Deputy Secretary of Transportation.