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 David Casteel,
P.E., is district engineer for the
San Antonio District of the Texas
Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The district comprises 12 counties:
Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, McMullen,
Medina, Uvalde and Wilson. Casteel’s appointment as district engineer took
effect Nov. 1, 2003.
Casteel joined TxDOT's Wichita Falls District in 1983 as a summer hire in the
Graham Area Office. He moved to Bowie in 1985 as an engineer-in-training and
later returned to Graham in 1987. Participating in TxDOT's Master of Science in
Civil Engineering Program, Casteel moved to College Station in 1990. There he
worked as an associate research engineer on construction work-zone safety for
the Texas Transportation Institute.
From 1991 to 1993, Casteel returned to the Wichita Falls District as assistant
area engineer in the Vernon Area Office. In 1993 he became area engineer in the
Abilene District's Big Spring Area Office. Promoted in 1994, Casteel was the
district's director of transportation planning and programming. In April 1997 he
was named district engineer for the Childress District. Before appointment to
San Antonio, Casteel had been district engineer of the Corpus Christi District,
a post he held since August 2001.
After earning his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M
University in 1984, Casteel graduated from the university with his master’s
degree in 1990. He became a licensed professional engineer in 1989. In 1998, he
graduated from the Governor's Executive Development Program at the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Casteel is married to the former Betsy Hart of Graham. They have a daughter,
Katie, and a son, Louie. |
