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 Effective
July 16, 2008,
Randy
Hopmann, P.E., was named interim district engineer for the
Odessa District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). He also serves as district engineer for the
Lubbock District.
He began his TxDOT career in January 1985 as an engineering assistant in the
Austin District. Before moving to the Tyler District in 1996, he held a variety
of positions in design engineering in the Austin District. Prior to his present
assignment in Lubbock, he had been director of transportation planning and
development in the Tyler District.
He served on the board of the South Plains Chapter of the Texas Society of
Professional Engineers (TSPE) from 2004-2007, and he is a member of the National Society of
Professional Engineers. He is president of the Lubbock South Plains Lions
Club and past chairman of the Lubbock Regional Directors Roundtable. Hopmann is
a 1999 graduate of the Leadership Tyler program and served on that program’s
board of directors in 2002. He is also a member of the Lubbock Metropolitan
Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board.
He has directed efforts resulting in several awards for the department’s Tyler
and Lubbock Districts including the TxDOT Commitment to Design Excellence for
both districts, the TxDOT Environmental Achievement Award, the 123 Safe Days of
Summer 2003 Award for the Lubbock District, and the TxDOT Bridge Project
Development Award. He also is deeply involved in the TxDOT research program for
transportation planning and pavements, and is currently chair of environmental,
design, hydraulics and right of way research.
A native of Houston, he earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from
Texas A&M University in 1984. He received his license as a professional engineer
in 1990.
He and his wife, Jackie, have two children, Kimberly and Bradly, and three
grandchildren. An outdoorsman, he enjoys hunting, fishing, snow-skiing and
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