Karen Hedlund of Nossaman new chief counsel of Federal Highway Admin (PERSONNEL)

Karen Hedlund, longtime head of the Washington DC area office of Nossaman, and a partner at the tollroad specializing law firm, is the new chief counsel at the Federal Highway Administration. Hedlund is well known in the industry as a confident, knowledgeable speaker on finance law, including toll revenue bonds, various federal support programs and the state of P3s in different states.

For the last fourteen years Hedlund has been a member of Nossaman’s Infrastructure Practice Group, mostly supporting  state and regional level on innovative procurements and financings, and the development of related federal and state legislation.

Her former boss - she just started work at FHWA - Infrastructure Practice Group Chair, Geoffrey S Yarema in the group's head office in Los Angeles says: “In the many years Karen was with Nossaman, we have played a major role in reshaping the way state and local governments deliver and finance transportation projects.  Karen was a key figure in our clients’ success.  We are certain she will be an equally key figure in the Administration’s efforts to reshape federal transportation policy.”

Hedlund, 30-ish (our best estimate) has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a law degree from Georgetown U.

TOLLROADSnews 2009-06-16