| James E. Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, will
deliver the 12th annual Public Policy Lecture on Dec. 15 at the Vanderbilt Stadium Club.
Hall's lecture, which is titled "The View from Washington," is sponsored by the
Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies and is by invitation only. President
Clinton selected Hall to be a member of the NTSB in 1993. Hall has chaired the board since
June of 1994. Recently, he accepted reappointment for another five-year term.
Previously he served on the Senate staffs of Albert Gore Sr. and Harlan Mathews. He
also headed Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter's transition team and served as director of
the Tennessee State Planning Office under McWherter.
Hall, who grew up in Knoxville, is the brother of John R. Hall, president of the
Vanderbilt Board of Trust. He received his B.A. and law degrees from the University of
Tennessee.
Under Hall's tenure, the NTSB has investigated some high-profile air tragedies,
including the crash of TWA Flight 800 in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York.
Hall has been named one of the 100 most powerful people in Washington by The National
Journal. |
