Abilene District Engineer

Jeremy Dearing, P.E., is the Abilene District engineer.

The district comprises 13 counties: Borden, Callahan, Fisher, Haskell, Howard, Jones, Kent, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Shackelford, Stonewall and Taylor

Dearing, a native of Plains, TX, graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in August of 2001. He began his TxDOT career as a summer intern in 1999 and 2000. In July 2001, he was hired as an engineering assistant with the Plainview Area Office. Dearing received his Professional Engineering license in 2006.

Dearing continued to progress his way to Assistant Area Engineer in the Plainview Area Office. In April 2010, he was hired as the Lubbock District Traffic Engineer where he began his work to improve the operability of the traffic and ITS systems in the Lubbock District. Dearing worked to expand the ITS network by including devices on numerous projects throughout the 17-county district.

In September 2012 he became the Lubbock District Maintenance Engineer. In this role, Dearing worked on numerous routine maintenance, bridge, and State Use Program projects in the entire district. He also taught the MBITS for the Maintenance Division across TxDOT. In August 2016, Dearing became the interim Lubbock Area Engineer overseeing construction and maintenance functions for Lubbock County and managing 13 projects totaling over $145 million. After the interim AE position, in February 2017, he moved back to the Lubbock District office as the Lubbock District Maintenance and Traffic Engineer.

In February of 2019, Dearing was appointed as the Director of Transportation Operations. He has led the Lubbock District’s efforts to improve the safety of the transportation system, striving to reach the Road to Zero goal. Utilizing innovations in radar detection systems for intersection safety, improving communications for the district ITS network, device monitoring systems for signal, ITS, and illumination systems, and identifying intersections for new innovative designs have been some of his major tasks. Dearing has served on the statewide Safety Task Force as well as the committee recommending changes for the new Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for the Traffic Safety Division.