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 Maribel
P. Chavez, P.E., is the district engineer for the
Fort Worth District of the
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The district comprises nine
counties: Erath, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant and
Wise. A TxDOT employee since 1983, she began her
career as an engineering assistant in the Pecos Area Office. She has held
positions as design engineer and assistant field operations engineer in the
Odessa District Office, as area engineer in Pecos, and as executive assistant to
Texas Transportation Commissioner Ray Stoker Jr. She worked as Abilene district
engineer before her appointment in 1998 as district engineer in El Paso. Since
being named Fort Worth district engineer in January 2002, Chavez has served on
the Regional Transportation Council of the North Central Texas Council of
Governments working to solve Metroplex-area transportation issues. Due to the
district’s ability to complete design projects accurately and on-time for
TxDOT’s submission schedules, the Fort Worth District received the Design
Excellence Award for a Metropolitan District in 2007 for the sixth-time since
the award’s inception in 1997. Under Chavez’s direction as district engineer,
she also oversees over $600 million in construction work each year.
A native of Pecos, Chavez earned her bachelor's degree in civil engineering
from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a graduate of the Leadership
Texas Program and has presided as board chair for the West Texas Chapter of
Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering. Chavez currently serves as chair
for TxDOT’s Research Management Committee concerning geometric design, right of
way, environment and hydraulics, and she is a member of the University of Texas
at Arlington’s Civil Engineering Advisory Board. Chavez was the 1996 recipient
of the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award. She was named Woman of the
Year in 2004 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Women’s Transportation
Seminar.
She and her husband, Daniel, have four children Jeremy, Billy, Kelli and
Amelia.
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