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>From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C.
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Surface Transportation Board Chairman Daniel R. Elliott III announced today
that Raymond A. Atkins will become the Board's general counsel effective
Sept. 1. Atkins will succeed Ellen D. Hanson, who retired last month.
Atkins has been an attorney in the
Board's General Counsel's Office
since 2003, where he has handled
the Board's major rate cases. He
is currently serving as chief of
staff to Chairman Elliott, a
position he has held since August
2009.
From 2000 to 2003, Atkins was an
associate at Covington & Burling,
where he worked in the antitrust
and transportation practices. He
has clerked for Judge Dolores K.
Sloviter of the U.S. Court of
Appeals, Third Circuit and was an
adjunct professor at George Mason
University School of Law. Atkins
earned a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1991, a law degree
from George Mason University
School of Law in 1998 and a Ph.D.
in economics from Emory University
in 1998. He makes his home in
Leesburg, Virginia, with his wife
and two children.
Hanson served the Surface
Transportation Board and its
predecessor agency, the Interstate
Commerce Commission, for 35 years.
She became the STB's general
counsel in 2000.
Elliott also announced today that
Timothy J. Strafford will become
his new chief of staff. Strafford
has worked as an attorney in the
STB's Office of Proceedings since
1999. Since 2006, he has served as
assistant to the director of the
Office of Proceedings. From
November 2009 to June 2010 he was
detailed to the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.
Strafford earned a B.A. with
General Honors from Rutgers
University in 1995 and a law
degree from American University in
1998, where he was an editor on
the American University
International Law Review. He
resides in Germantown, Maryland,
with his wife and two children.
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