Biography

Steve Bradbury was sworn in on November 28, 2017, as the 23rd General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation after his confirmation by the United States Senate.

As the Department’s chief legal officer, Mr. Bradbury has the authority to resolve all legal questions concerning the Department’s policies and programs and its more than 55,000 employees and $79 billion budget.  Mr. Bradbury oversees the activities of the Department’s lawyers, safeguarding the integrity of the decision-making process and ensuring compliance with applicable laws.

Before joining DOT, Mr. Bradbury was a litigation partner at Dechert LLP in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on regulatory enforcement and investigations, rulemaking and judicial review of agency actions, appellate cases, and antitrust matters.  In private practice, he gained experience with automotive safety and aviation competition issues, including before DOT.  From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Bradbury headed the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advised the executive branch on a wide range of constitutional and statutory questions, and where he received the Edmund J. Randolph Award and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, among other awards.  Before serving in the Justice Department, Mr. Bradbury was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP for ten years.  He clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court and for Judge James L. Buckley on the D.C. Circuit.  Mr. Bradbury graduated magna cum laude from Michigan Law School and received his B.A. from Stanford University.  He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and lives with his wife in McLean, Virginia.

Keith Washington serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation.  In this role, he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of human resources, security, acquisitions and grants, transportation and facilities, and space management.  Prior to this role, he was the Director in the Departmental Office of Human Resource Management.  In this key role, he was responsible for leading and evaluating Departmental human resource management policies for a large Cabinet level agency in the following areas: recruitment and staffing, position classification, pay, labor and employee relations, learning and development, workforce planning, executive resources, work and family life, employee benefits, automation, performance management, and accountability.

Director of the Resource Management Office

Lauren is the Director of the Resource Management Office (RMO) for the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).  In this role she is responsible for strategic communications, Human Resources, and the budget and procurement for OCIO's three funds including the IT Working Capital Fund (WCF). She also manages the Department's enterprise web platform which now hosts several operating administrations and the government wide permitting dashboard.

The bios of the OST-B senior management team are listed here.