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5/2/2022
President Joe Biden late last week announced he will nominate five people to serve as members of Amtrak’s board.
They are Anthony Coscia, David Capozzi, Christopher Koos, Rev. Samuel Lathem and Robin Wiessmann, according to a White House press release.
Amtrak's current Chairman Coscia was appointed to Amtrak’s board by President Barack Obama in 2010 and reappointed in 2015. He is a partner and executive committee member of Windels Marx LLP, New York City.
Capozzi is a retired federal senior executive. He was executive director of the U.S. Access Board from 2008 to 2020 and was director of the board’s Office of Technical and Information Services from 1992 to 2008.
Koos is mayor of Normal, Illinois. He was elected to his first term on the Normal Town Council in April 2001. He was sworn in as mayor on Feb. 17, 2003, and his current term runs until 2025.
Lathem was elected as the first African-American president of Delaware State AFL-CIO in October 2003. He was ordained a Baptist preacher in 1992 at the First Baptist Church of Morton, Pennsylvania, by the New Hope Baptist Association and currently serves as associate minister at Cornerstone Fellowship Baptist Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
Wiessmann is executive director and CEO of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. As CEO of PHFA, she manages operations and directs initiatives that promote development of affordable rental housing and provide financing for homeownership.