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Schulze will assist the chair with day-to-day operations of\nthe agency, which has 400 employees and a budget of $118 million. Also tapped\nWednesday was Dolline Hatchett as principal deputy managing director for\nmanagement and operations; Tim LeBaron as head of aviation safety; Joe Sedor as\nchief technical advisor for space and advanced aerospace transportation\ninvestigations; and Erik Strickland as executive officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese tested leaders bring a wealth of talent and energy to\nour small but vital agency,\u201d Homendy said. \u201cWhile they come from different\nbackgrounds and areas of expertise, all are committed to upholding the values\nof the NTSB today and working to ensure we are ready to meet the safety\nchallenges of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schulze had been director of the Office of Aviation Safety,\nwhere she began her NTSB career as an aircraft system safety engineer and\nworked on major domestic and international airline accident investigations,\nincluding Alaska Airlines flight 261, Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701 and\nAmerican Airlines flight 587. Schulze later became chief of the aviation\nengineering division, responsible for investigating the airworthiness of\naircraft involved in major aviation accidents and serious incidents. Schulze\nlater served as the chief of the major investigations division where she\noversaw more than a dozen major airline accident investigations, including the\ninvestigation of US Airways flight 1549 in Weehawken, New Jersey and Colgan Air\nflight 3407 in Clarence Center, New York. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before joining the NTSB, Schulze worked in the private\ncommercial aerospace industry. She earned her B.S. in space sciences and\nmechanical engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology and an M.S. in\nmechanical engineering from the State University of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Hatchett was formerly director of the Office of Safety\nRecommendations and Communications, where she led a multidisciplinary team\nresponsible for shaping and promoting how the agency responds and coordinates\nwith Congress, the media and the public. She was charged with issuing\nmulti-modal safety recommendations for aviation, marine, highway, rail,\npipeline and hazardous materials. From 2018-2019, Hatchett oversaw the agency\u2019s\nTransportation Disaster Assistance Division, which coordinates assistance for\nthose families impacted by transportation disasters with local, state, federal\nand non-governmental agencies, and transportation operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hatchett has an extensive background serving in senior-level\npositions at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, and\nas vice president of communications at the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. She\ngraduated cum laude from Norfolk State University, where she earned a B.A. She\nis a graduate of the Defense Information School, the Federal Executive Institute\nand the American University\u2019s DHS Capstone Program for senior executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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LeBaron will serve as the director of the NTSB\u2019s Office of\nAviation Safety, the nation\u2019s top aviation investigator. LeBaron worked his way\nup from an NTSB intern in 2003 and over the years has led more than 300\nairplane crash investigations across the country and globe, including in\nAfghanistan, Russia, Japan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before joining the NTSB, LeBaron worked as an aircraft\nmechanic responsible for aircraft used in general aviation, on-demand and\nscheduled charter operations. He has also worked as an airport manager and as\nan assistant professor at Vincennes University in Indiana, where he lectured\nand provided hands-on training of future aviation maintenance technicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LeBaron is an airplane owner and pilot who holds a\ncommercial pilot certificate for single-engine land, single-engine sea,\nmulti-engine land and an instrument rating, as well as an airframe and\npowerplant technician certificate with inspection authorization. He holds an\nA.S. in Aviation Maintenance Technology from Vincennes University, a B.A. in\naeronautical technology from Purdue University and an M.A. in aeronautical\nscience from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sedor will serve as the chief technical adviser to the\nOffice of Aviation Safety and the NTSB board on all matters concerning space\ntransportation and advanced aerospace transportation technologies systems and\noperations, which may include unmanned aircraft systems, fully autonomous air\nvehicles, or nascent and complex experimental aircraft designs. Sedor will work\nclosely with the newly renamed Air Carrier and Space Investigation Division of\nthe Office of Aviation Safety. Prior to assuming this new position, Sedor supervised\nall major air carrier and space investigations, including the investigation\ninto the crash of Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShip Two in 2014. He also managed the\ninteragency agreement between the agency and NASA to support the Commercial\nCrew Program and initial test launches. In addition, Sedor was responsible for\nmanaging the agency\u2019s unmanned aviation systems program, which uses new drone\ntechnology to assist in aviation crash investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before coming to the NTSB, Sedor was a flight test\nengineer\/pilot with the Cessna Aircraft Company where he worked primarily on\nthe development and certification of the Citation X business jet. Sedor holds a\nB.A. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a M.S. in\nEngineering from the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Strickland will serve as the agency\u2019s executive officer,\nwhere he will serve as key adviser to the chair on policies, programs and\noperations. Strickland has more than 20 years of transportation safety\nexperience. Strickland began his career with Mothers Against Drunk Driving,\nworking with states to implement legislation to prevent impaired driving and\nunderage drinking. He spent nearly a decade with the Foundation for Advancing\nAlcohol Responsibility before becoming director of federal relations for the\nGovernors Highway Safety Association in 2014 and then joining the NTSB as a\ntransportation safety specialist in 2016. He earned a B.A. from the University\nof Montana and an M.A. in Emergency and Disaster Management from Georgetown\nUniversity and served as a firefighter and emergency medical technician in\nFalls Church, Virginia for more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy named her top leadership team Wednesday, including Dana Schulze as managing director of the agency. Schulze will assist the chair with day-to-day operations of the agency, which has 400 employees and a budget of $118 million. Also tapped Wednesday was Dolline Hatchett as principal deputy managing director for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20648,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions\/20648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}