Gary Ridley (transport director)
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Gary Ridley is the current director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. The longtime transportation executive was named Director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in August 2001.
His ODOT service dates back to 1965, when he joined the department as an equipment operator. He moved up to maintenance superintendent at Kingfisher, Oklahoma in 1970 and traffic superintendent at Perry, Oklahoma in 1979. In 1983 he became field maintenance engineer at Perry, then advanced to Division Five Maintenance Engineer at Clinton, Oklahoma in 1986. He became Division Engineer at Clinton in 1995.
He left ODOT in 1997 to become executive director of the Oklahoma Asphalt Paving Association. He returned to the department in January 2001 as Assistant Director for Operations. Ridley was responsible for managing the department through the crisis caused by the Webbers Falls bridge disaster, and the reconstruction in the summer of 2002.
Ridley is a native of Chicago, Illinois and a registered professional engineer. He and his wife, Eula, live in Yukon, Oklahoma and have two children, Daphne and Joe.
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