List of members of the National Transportation Safety Board

The five members of the National Transportation Safety Board each serve five-year terms after they are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. One member is designated by the president to serve as chairman and another as vice chairman; each serves a two-year term in those capacities. The chairman is required to undergo a separate Senate confirmation hearing. When there is no designated chairman, the vice chairman serves as the acting chairman.^[1]

NTSB in September 2017

Members

•  Chair 
•  Vice Chair 
•  Chair and Vice Chair 

List of members of the National Transportation Safety Board

Year	Member	Member	Member	Member	Member
1967	Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr.[a] 1967–69[b]	John H. Reed[a] 1967–76[c]	Oscar M. Laurel 1967–72	Louis M. Thayer 1967–76	Francis H. McAdams 1967–83
1968
1969
	Isabel A. Burgess 1969–76
1970
1971
1972
			William R. Haley 1972–77
1973
1974
1975
1976
	Kay Bailey[d] 1976–78[e]	Webster B. Todd, Jr.[a] 1976–79[f]		Philip A. Hogue 1976–79
1977
			James B. King[a] 1977–82[g]
1978
	Elwood T. Driver[d] 1978–81[h]
1979
		Patricia A. Goldman[d] 1979–88[i]		G.H. Patrick Bursley 1979–85
1980
1981
	James E. Burnett, Jr.[a] 1981–91[j]
1982
			Donald D. Engen 1982–84
1983
					Vernon L. Grose 1983–84
1984
			[vacant]		[vacant]
1985
				John K. Lauber 1985–95
1986
			Joseph T. Nall 1986–89[k]
1987
					James L. Kolstad[a] 1987–92[l]
1988
		Lee V. Dickinson, Jr. 1988–90
1989
			[vacant]
1990
		Susan M. Coughlin[d] 1990–94[m]	Christopher A. Hart 1990–93
1991
	John A. Hammerschmidt 1991–2003
1992
					Carl W. Vogt[a] 1992–94[n]
1993
			James E. Hall[a] 1993–2001[o]
1994
		[vacant]			[vacant]
1995
		Robert T. Francis II[d] 1995–99[p]		John J. Goglia 1995–2004
1996
					George W. Black, Jr. 1996–2003
1997
1998
1999
		[vacant]
2000
		Carol J. Carmody[d] 2000–05[q]
2001
			Marion C. Blakey[a] 2001–02[r]
2002
			[vacant]
2003
	Ellen Engleman Conners[a] 2003–06[s]		Mark V. Rosenker[a][d] 2003–09[t]		Richard F. Healing 2003–05
2004
				Deborah A.P. Hersman[a] 2004–14[u]
2005
		[vacant]			[vacant]
2006
	Robert L. Sumwalt[a][d] 2006–21[v]	Kathryn O'Leary Higgins 2006–09
2007
					Steven R. Chealander 2007–09
2008
2009
		[vacant]	Christopher A. Hart[a][d] 2009–17[w]		[vacant]
2010
		Mark R. Rosekind 2010–14			Earl F. Weener 2010–19
2011
2012
2013
2014
		[vacant]		[vacant]
2015
				T. Bella Dinh-Zarr[d] 2015–18[x]
2016
2017
			[vacant]
2018
		Bruce Landsberg[d] 2018–23[y]	Jennifer Homendy 2018+[z]	[vacant]
2019
				Michael Graham 2020+	Thomas B. Chapman 2020+
2020
2021	[vacant]
2022
2023
2024	Alvin Brown[d] 2024+[aa]	J. Todd Inman 2024+
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029

Notes

1. Chair of NTSB.
2. Served as 1st Chair from 1967–69.
3. Served as 2nd Chair from 1970–76.
4. Vice Chair of NTSB.
5. Served as Vice Chair from 1976–78.
6. Served as 3rd Chair of NTSB from 1976–78.^[2][3]
7. Served as 4th Chair from 1978–82.^[4]
8. Served as Vice Chair from 1978–81.^[5]
9. Served as Vice Chair from 1982–88.^[6]
10. Served as 5th Chair from 1982–88.^[7]
11. Died during a plane crash in 1989.^[8]
12. Served as 6th Chair from 1990–92^[9] and, as Vice Chair, acting chair from 1988–90.^[7]
13. Served as Vice Chair from 1990–94; also Acting Chair in 1994.^[10][11]
14. Served as 7th Chair from 1992–94.
15. Served as 8th Chair from 1994 to 2001.^[12]
16. Served as Vice Chair from 1995–99.^[13]
17. Served as Vice Chair from 2001–03, including two stints as Acting Chair.^[14]
18. Served as 9th Chair from 2001–02.^[15]
19. Served as 10th Chair from 2003–05.^[16]
20. Served as 11th Chair from 2006–08; also Acting Chair (as Vice Chair) in 2005–06 and 2008–09.^[17]
21. Served three terms as 12th Chair from 2009–14.^[18]
22. Served as Vice Chair from 2006–08 and as 14th Chair 2017–2021.^[19]
23. Served as Vice Chair from 2009-14, Acting Chair 2014, and as 13th Chair from 2015–17.^[20]
24. Served as Vice Chair from 2015–18.^[21]
25. Served as Vice Chair 2018–23.^[22]
26. Served as Acting Chair from July 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021; served as 15th Chair from August 13.^[23]
27. Served as Vice Chair 2024+^[24]