The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee this week approved the nomination of Michael Graham to continue to serve on the National Transportation Safety Board through Dec. 31, 2030. Approval, by a 21 to 7 vote, was among a slate of nominations the committee agreed to on March 12, also including Matthew Anderson to be deputy administrator of NASA, and Seval Oz to be assistant secretary of transportation for research and technology.
Graham joined the NTSB on Jan. 3, 2020, after serving as director of flight operations safety, security, and standardization for Textron Aviation. In that role, he was a strong safety advocate in the business aviation community and has continued those efforts since joining the board, speaking at a range of safety seminars to highlight pressing issues. An air transport pilot with 10,000 flight hours, Graham began as an A-7 and F/A-18 pilot with the U.S. Navy. He later served as an F/A-18 aircrew instructor for McDonnell Douglas and Boeing and as an avionics integration engineer.
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