ASCE Leaders

Thomas L. Jackson, P.E., F.ASCE
President, ASCE
Thomas L. Jackson is 2003 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He assumed the Society's highest office in October 2002. Jackson is a consulting transportation engineer and vice president of DMJM+HARRIS. His career spans more than 40 years in the consulting engineering practice. Jackson's professional engineering experience has consisted of projects comprised of master planning, design and construction management.

Patrick J. Natale, P.E., M.ASCE, C.A.E
Executive Director, and Chief Staff Officer and Secretary, ASCE
In November 2002, Patrick J. Natale began his tenure as the executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In January of 1999, Natale was appointed the executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Prior to joining NSPE, Natale held numerous top-level management positions with the Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) of New Jersey. During his 28-year career with PSE&G, he was responsible for managing sales, marketing, strategic planning and customer service.

2003 Advisory Counsel

C. Michael Walton, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Advisory Council Chair
Dr. Michael Walton is professor of civil engineering and holds the Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Walton's distinguished career in transport policy and engineering analysis spans more than 30 years and is highlighted by his contributions to many transportation professional societies and technical publications.

Donald L. Basham, P.E.
Donald Basham is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Engineering and Construction. Basham's career in engineering, construction, and program and project management spans 35 years. In his current assignment, he is responsible for policy, program and technical expertise in the execution of over $10 billion of design and construction programs for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, other federal agencies and over sixty foreign nations.

Brigid A. Baty, Associate Engineer
Brigid A. Baty works at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) in the Engineering Services Section's Facility Planning Team. Before this recent position change, she was on the Dam Safety Team as a dam inspector for 12 years and continues to be an active member of MWD's Emergency Response Team. Baty is the current chair of ASCE's Committee on Communications and is a member of the National Infrastructure Policy Committee.

Jeanette A. Brown, P.E, DEE
Jeanette A. Brown is the executive director of Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority. She is also an adjunct professor of Environmental Engineering Manhattan College. Brown has 30 years experience in wastewater treatment; she is considered an authority on operations of biological nitrogen removal processes and sludge management.

Charles C. Calhoun, Jr., P.E., F.ASCE
Charles C. Calhoun is a consultant in the private sector. He retired after over 35 years of distinguished service as the deputy director of the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station's Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. Calhoun is the president-elect of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) and has served as the chairman of ASCE's Waterway Committee. He is also a vice president and commissioner of the U.S. Section of the International Navigation Association.

William P. Henry, P.E., F.ASCE
William P. Henry's area of technical expertise is water resources planning and engineering. He co-founded the small business Aqua Resources, Inc. Currently he is the marketing manager for the Seattle office of Schaaf & Wheeler Consulting Civil Engineers, a small water resources engineering firm. Henry has served as an ASCE director and has been president of the San Francisco Section.

Andrew W. Herrmann, P.E., F.ASCE
Andrew Herrmann is partner at Hardesty and Hanover LLP, headquartered in New York, and serves as partner-in-charge for many of the firm's bridge projects. He is integrally responsible for the design, inspection, rehabilitation, construction support, analysis, and rating of fixed and movable bridges, highways, railroads and major transportation projects.

Brad Iarossi, P.E.
Brad Iarossi is chief of the Dam Safety Division for Maryland's Department of the Environment. With expertise in environmental regulation and water projects, Iarossi serves as chair of ASCE's National Water Policy Committee and is past president of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.

Leon Kempner, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., M .ASCE
Dr. Kempner has 29 years experience as a structural engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration. Career assignments include structural engineering analysis, design and research of transmission line facilities. Kempner is active in many national and international Electrical Transmission Engineering professional organizations and has contributed to many technical publications addressing transmission line structural engineering issues.

Conrad G. Keyes, Jr., Sc.D., P.E./P.S., F.ASCE
Conrad Keyes is a past president of ASCE's Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and is currently the ASCE Institute's representative to the Society's Executive Committee. Keyes proudly serves as consultant to the US Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District. He has been involved in numerous water resource projects throughout the southwest and is a past member-at-large of the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission.

Roger M. Millar, Jr., P.E., F.ASCE
Roger Millar is vice president of DMJM+Harris, Inc. He has over 20 years of professional experience with an extensive background in public and private sector transportation, land use and environmental projects. Millar is chair of the ASCE National Infrastructure Policy Committee and past chair of the Pacific Northwest Council of ASCE.

Peter G. Nicholson, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Dr. Peter Nicholson is a professor of civil engineering and graduate chair for the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He chairs the Embankments, Dams & Slopes Committee for the Geo-Institute of ASCE of which he has been an active member for the past 12 years. Nicholson has been consulting on dam safety, design and rehabilitation for almost 20 years in Hawaii and California.

Robert E. Nickerson, P.E., M.ASCE
Robert Nickerson is an independent consulting structural engineer specializing in the design, analysis and upgrading of electrical transmission systems and has over 25 years of experience in the electrical utility industry. This experience includes three key areas: analysis and design of transmission structures, research and full-scale testing of transmission structures, and currently as a consultant working with utilities in development of transmission models for system analyses and upgrades.

Randall S. Over, P.E., F.ASCE
Randall Over is the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) District 12 construction engineer. He is responsible for construction contracts for the Cleveland, Ohio, metro area. He also serves on the ODOT statewide Construction and Materials Specification Committee.

Thomas M. Rachford, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Dr. Thomas M. Rachford is a vice president with Gannett Fleming, Inc., an engineering and planning firm with 45 offices nationwide. Rachford has been with Gannett Fleming for 30 years and currently serves as corporate quality manager. He is also the president-elect of ASCE's Environmental and Water Resources Institute.

Debra R. Reinhart, Ph.D., P.E.
Debra Reinhart is a professor and interim chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida. Reinhart is a member of seven national professional and technical organizations; four national committees; and chair of ASCE External Organizations Coordination Committee. She is the author of over 100 books, papers and presentations.

J. Alan Roberson, P.E., M. ASCE
Alan Roberson is director of Regulatory Affairs for the American Water Works Association in Washington, DC. He has over 12 years experience in government affairs, and another 12 years experience in the design and project management of water and wastewater plants and land development projects.

Thomas S. Slater, P.E., M. ASCE
Thomas S. Slater is a leading expert, author and lecturer in aviation engineering and management for PBS&J, a national airport planning and consulting firm in Raleigh, NC. As a member of ASCE's National Transportation Committee, Slater serves as an advisor to the Society on issue of federal and state funding policies. He was named as chairman of the 28th Annual Air Transport Conference scheduled for July 2004. Slater has over 25 years serving the airport and aviation community.

Tom Warne, P.E.
Tom Warne is the president of Tom Warne and Associates, assisting public agencies to become more effective and private companies to become more profitable in the 21st century. Projects and engagements include large design-build efforts, strategic planning, succession management, legislative initiatives, market analysis, process improvement initiatives and client interventions. In addition, Warne has assisted numerous states, contractors and engineering firms in advancing their design-build programs.

David Westerling, PhD, P.E., P.L.S., F.ASCE
Dr. David Westerling is a professor of civil engineering at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. Westerling is a former ASCE Congressional Fellow and past-president of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. He has over 35 years of engineering experience in the public and private sectors. He was recently elected town moderator in Harvard, Mass.