Keynote Speaker
Jim Trogdon
Secretary of Transportation
 Jim Trogdon, an engineer with decades of leadership in state government and the
military, was named as Secretary of the NC Department of Transportation in
January 2017.  Trogdon had served as NCDOT's chief operating officer before his
retirement in 2013 and as director of Strategic Transportation Planning for the N.C.
General Assembly. He leaves his current work at SAS Institute as national transportation director to lead NCDOT.
Trogdon, a native of Hope Mills, is a major general who holds a master’s degree in
Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College as well as two civil engineering
degrees from North Carolina State University.