S.F. transportation agency picks temporary chief

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Debra Johnson will replace Nathaniel Ford as head of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Photo courtesy of SFMTA.

 The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has named Debra Johnson, the city’s director of administration and taxis, to temporarily replace outgoing Executive Director Nathaniel P. Ford.

The agency’s board of directors will be interviewing candidates for a permanent replacement next month. Johnson could potentially be one of those candidates.

Johnson has been with the agency for about four years. She was the one of the lead negotiators during the labor talks with agency’s Muni operators. Before working for the city’s transit agency, she worked at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C.

Ford announced that he was leaving the agency two weeks ago after the agency wrapped up labor talks with its Muni operators. The board of directors last week agreed to give Ford a $384,000 severance package.

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