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Williamson Aalund Lake

Hernandez LaGrange

Science with High Honors in Naval

Architecture & Marine Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Master of Science degrees in both

Mechanical Engineering and Naval

Architecture & Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan and

Business Administration from MIT.

Hernandez Named New

Orleans Port Commissioner

Tara C. Hernandez has been appoint- ed to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. Hernandez will serve a ? ve-year term, succeeding

Gregory R. Rusovich. A graduate of

Loyola University with a degree in ? - nance, Ms. Hernandez also earned a master’s of science degree in real estate development from the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology.

LaGrange Appointed to

MTSNAC Committee

The U.S. Maritime Administra- tion appointed Port of New Orleans

President and CEO Gary LaGrange to its Maritime Transportation Sys- tem National Advisory Committee (MTSNAC). The term is for two years and begins this month. The objective of the committee is to pro- vide information, advice and recom- mendations to the U.S. Secretary of

Transportation on matters relating to the U.S. marine transportation system and seamless integration with other segments of the transportation system, including the viability of the

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