First woman named CDOT chief engineer
Rocky Mountain News
Published November 3, 2006 at midnight
Pam Hutton, a 27-year employee of the Colorado Department of Transportation, has been named chief engineer. Hutton, of Douglas County, is the first woman to serve in CDOT’s top engineering post in department history.
Hutton began in 1977 as a high school graduate when she joined the department’s traffic engineering section as an entry-level aide. She attended night classes at the University of Colorado at Denver to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering. Her master’s thesis was written on the topic of "Ramp Metering on I-25 in the Denver Metro Area."
She worked in both the Denver metro area and District 1, the area from Vail Pass to the Kansas border roughly paralleling I-70.
She later served as a traffic and safety engineer, was promoted to lead an engineering area and then named Transportation Director of Region 6, the Denver metropolitan area, in 2005.
In her duties as Chief Engineer, Hutton will oversee all of the
department’s operations and engineering functions, including
maintenance, construction, and consulting contracts.
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