U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will deliver the keynote address at Elon Law’s New Student Convocation on August 5.
Foxx joined the U.S. Department of Transportation after serving as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2009 to 2013. During that time, he made efficient and innovative transportation investments the centerpiece of Charlotte’s job creation and economic recovery efforts. Foxx spoke with Elon Law students in 2012, delivering the Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture.
Prior to being elected mayor, Foxx served two terms on the Charlotte City Council as an At-Large Representative. Foxx is an attorney and has spent much of his career in private practice. He also worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and staff counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Foxx received a law degree from New York University’s School of Law as a Root-Tilden Scholar, the University’s prestigious public service scholarship. He earned a bachelor’s degree in History from Davidson College.
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