Today the Texas Transportation Commission named General Joe Weber as the new executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation, effective on or about April 23.
General Weber was born in Weimar, Texas in 1950 and is a 1972 graduate of Texas A&M University. Immediately upon graduation, he began his 36 years of service to the nation as a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps. Over the course of an extensive military career, the General served in numerous operational assignments throughout the United States and overseas, commanding at all levels as well as serving in a wide variety of senior staff and joint/combined assignments. He has broad experience working with the interagency as well as a multitude of foreign military and diplomatic representatives and agencies world-wide. The General earned a master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Lieutenant General Weber’s final active duty Marine Corps assignment was as Commander, Marine Forces Command, Commanding General Fleet Marine Forces Atlantic, Commanding General Marine Corps Bases Atlantic where he was responsible for 74,000 personnel with an annual budget of $80 million and holdings and assets totaling $33 billion. Upon his retirement from the active duty ranks of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant General Weber returned to Texas A&M University in August of 2008 where he currently serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs.