William
H. Leder, P.E., Class of '68
Mr. William Leder, a Principal with the transportation consulting
firm of Lea+Elliott, possesses a 29-year career in the planning
and design of airports. He holds a baccalaureate degree in
civil engineering from Michigan Tech and went on to attain
a master's in transportation systems from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1970. He has been active in the
Air Transport Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers
since 1987 and is the author of several published papers on
airport landside planning and design. In addition to being
Principal-in-Charge of a team of Lea+Elliott engineers and
managing several large airport and transit projects, Bill
is the regional director in charge of Lea+Elliot's California
office, which he opened in 1995. He is an Executive Vice-President
and serves on the Board of Directors of Lea+Elliot, Inc.,
an employee-owned firm of 80 persons.
Before
joining Lea+Elliott, Bill was Deputy Executive Director of
the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where he directed
planning, design, and construction of public works improvements
with a capital budget of $200 million per year. As Deputy
Executive Director, he managed the administrative and fiscal
aspects of the public agency with 1,100 employees. Bill and
his wife, Jerri Gray, reside in Walnut Creek, California. |
