FMCSA Appoints Earl Adams Deputy Administrator – Fleet Administration

Earl Adams Jr. was sworn in as deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration. Adams has served as FMCSA’s chief counsel since July 2021. He takes over the function beforehand held by Robin Hutcheson, who was formally confirmed as FMCSA’s administrator on Sept. 22, 2022.

As deputy administrator, Adams will be a part of Hutcheson to steer the company and can oversee a portfolio of initiatives throughout the company’s numerous program workplaces that helps FMCSA’s mission – to forestall crashes, accidents, and fatalities involving giant vehicles and buses.

“Earl is a mission-driven chief and thinker who embodies the values of our company and the complete Division of Transportation,” stated FMCSA Administrator Robin Hutcheson. “His huge expertise, mind, and other people expertise are precisely what the function of deputy administrator requires. I sit up for persevering with to work with Earl on insurance policies, initiatives, data-based methods to forestall crashes, enhance security outcomes on our roadways, and finally obtain our objective of zero fatalities.”

Adams has intensive authorized and government expertise throughout a number of modes, together with floor transportation, rail, and aviation. In his function as chief counsel, Adams was accountable for authorized coverage on all elements of company packages and actions together with the event, issuance, interpretation, enforcement, and protection of the Federal Motor Provider Security Rules earlier than state and federal courts. He additionally supplied government oversight for FMCSA’s know-how and innovation portfolio, together with rulemaking on autonomous automobiles.

Previous to becoming a member of FMCSA, Adams labored within the personal sector with a number of legislation corporations, and most just lately as a litigation associate with a nationwide legislation agency, the place he additionally served because the managing associate of the agency’s Washington, DC workplace. His authorized follow has all the time centered on offering shoppers with regulatory and compliance counsel throughout a number of sectors, together with transportation, renewable vitality, and procurement.

Moreover, Adams served with distinction as chief of employees to Maryland’s former lieutenant governor and has held a number of management positions in impactful organizations, together with serving as the previous chairman of the Board of Administrators for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, former vice chairman of the Bowie State College Board of Guests, and former board member of the Financial Membership of Washington.