{"id":14530,"date":"2024-09-29T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/melody-drummond-hansen-appointed-fmcsa-chief-counsel\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:49:15","slug":"melody-drummond-hansen-appointed-fmcsa-chief-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/melody-drummond-hansen-appointed-fmcsa-chief-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Melody Drummond Hansen Appointed FMCSA Chief Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Melody Drummond Hansen Appointed FMCSA Chief Counsel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced Melody Drummond Hansen as the agency\u2019s new Chief Counsel.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, Drummond Hansen will work closely with and advise the FMCSA Acting Administrator and senior staff on all aspects of legal policy for agency programs. She will lead a team of more than 50 attorneys responsible for providing legal support on regulatory and legislative affairs, adjudications, enforcement and litigation, procurement and grants, ethics, and employment matters. Drummond Hansen brings a decade of experience advising clients across the automotive and transportation industry and 20 years of experience in emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMelody is a great addition to the FMCSA leadership team,\u201d said FMCSA Acting Administrator Vinn White. \u201cThis is an exciting time for the agency, and I have no doubt that Melody\u2019s dedication and proven track record in transportation and technology will help advance FMCSA\u2019s mission and improve safety for everyone traveling the nation\u2019s roadways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before joining FMCSA, Drummond Hansen was a partner at BakerHostetler LLP, where she was a co-chair of the Automotive\/Mobility industry team and a member of the Intellectual Property Group. She advised clients on a range of transportation and technology matters, including automated and connected vehicles, avionics, fleet management, electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, telecommunications standards, data privacy and security, digital infrastructure, and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Drummond Hansen is originally from South Carolina. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University, a Master of Science from the University of Oxford, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmcsa.dot.gov\/newsroom\/melody-drummond-hansen-appointed-fmcsa-chief-counsel\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melody Drummond Hansen Appointed FMCSA Chief Counsel WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced Melody Drummond Hansen as the agency\u2019s new Chief Counsel. In this role, Drummond Hansen will work closely with and advise the FMCSA Acting Administrator and senior staff on all aspects of legal policy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14564,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions\/14564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}