Heidi King
Heidi R. King (born December 21, 1964) served as acting Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Biography King was born December 21, 1964 in Ventura, California. After serving as a park ranger for the California Department of Parks and Recreation, she received a B.A. from University of California, Irvine in 1995 and a M.Sc in economics from California Institute of Technology in 1998. She served as a regulatory policy analyst in the Office of Management and Budget from 1998 to 2000. She then worked for Telcordia Technologies, and in 2002 moved to Pfizer. In 2007, she returned to government service in the Office of Management and Budget, and then in 2011 as chief economist of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In 2013, she returned to the private sector as GE Capital's global director for environmental safety and risk. In 2017, she returned once more to government service as Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. She was, in effect, the head of the agency, since the previous administrator, Mark Rosekind, left just before Trump's inauguration in January 2017. The White House announced April 5, 2018, that Donald Trump intends to nominate Heidi King to lead