07/23/2025 at 10:00AM
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nominations hearing for nominees of the Department of Transportation at 10:00 AM EST on July 23, 2025.
Nominees:
- Seval Oz, of California, to be the Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Research and Technology
- Michael Rutherford, of Florida, to be the Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Multimodal Freight
- Gregory Zerzan, of Texas, to be General Counsel of the Department of Transportation
Oz was Head of Global Strategic Partnerships for Google [X]’s Self-Driving Car Program from 2011 to 2014, where she supported business and marketing efforts for the initiative that later became Waymo. Oz recently served on the board of directors of MicroVision Inc., an advanced driver-assistance systems software company.
In 2020, American PetroLog, a logistics, transportation, storage, blending and transloading services to the chemical industry, hired Michael Rutherford as Senior Vice President to expand their rail to truck transloading services in Texas and New York City. Rutherford worked for more than ten years in transportation and logistics at CSX.
Greg Zerzan is an attorney and former acting assistant secretary of the U.S Treasury under President George W. Bush.