L. Welch Pogue Award Dinner
The prestigious annual L. Welch Pogue Award for lifetime achievement in aviation will be presented to Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater, on Tuesday, September 12, 2023.
The first L. Welch Pogue Award was presented in 1994 to its namesake, the former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and a U.S. delegate to the Chicago Convention, which created the legal blueprint for post-World War II expansion of commercial aviation.
Secretary Slater joins a long line of preeminent L. Welch Pogue Award winners who have helped shape modern international commercial air transportation.
The L. Welch Pogue Award is jointly presented by the International Aviation Club, Aviation Week Network, and Jones Day.
Schedule of Events
5:30 p.m. -- Reception
6:45 p.m. -- Call to Dinner
7:00 p.m. -- Dinner and Presentations
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater
Squire Patton Boggs Partner, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater, helps clients integrate their interests in the overall vision for the transportation system of the 21st Century – a vision he set as Transportation Secretary to promote a safer, more efficient, environmentally sound and sustainable worldwide transportation infrastructure.
Secretary Slater also helps state and local government clients address the vexing challenge of closing the gap between transportation demand and capacity by employing public/private strategies and innovative financing solutions. Secretary Slater’s practice focuses on many of the policy and transportation objectives that were set under his leadership, including automobile use and development, aviation competition and congestion mitigation, maritime initiatives, high-speed rail corridor development, and overall transportation safety and funding.
As U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Bill Clinton, Secretary Slater passed several historic legislative initiatives over his tenure, including the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), which guaranteed a record US $200 billion in surface transportation investment though 2003, and the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21), which provides a record US $46 billion to improve the safety and security of the nation’s aviation system.
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