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The Federal Transit Administration recently appointed Therese Watkins McMillan deputy administrator.

She will help oversee a staff of more than 500 in Washington, D.C., as well as 10 regional offices throughout the United States. McMillan also will help manage an annual budget of $10 billion, plus $8.4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars.

Since 2001, McMillan has served as deputy executive director of policy for the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), a regional planning agency that oversees 26 public transit agencies. She oversaw the commission's departments that were responsible for strategic financial planning and MTC's management of federal, state and regional funds for transit, highways, roadways and other transportation modes; state and federal legislative advocacy, and public affairs and community outreach; planning; and transportation/land use, air quality and freight issues.

"Her many years of experience delivering projects to the people of the Bay Area can now be brought to bear on the transportation challenges we face across America," said FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff in a prepared statement. "Therese's hands-on experience working across transportation modes will enable her to deliver on the president's vision for transportation investments."