Metro News Release

For immediate release: January 29, 2009

Jim Graham elected Chairman of Metro's Board of Directors

Peter Benjamin, Catherine Hudgins elected first and second vice chairs

Jim Graham has been elected to serve a year-long term as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) effective immediately. Graham, a Board member representing the District of Columbia, succeeds Christopher Zimmerman, whose one-year term as chairman ended today.

Graham, who has been on the Metro Board since 1999 and last served as Board Chairman in 2003, represents Ward 1 on the Council of the District of Columbia.

Graham served as executive director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic from 1984 to 1998. Previously, he served as staff counsel for Senator Abe Ribicoff (D-Conn) and clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren (Rtd.). Graham is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Also today, Peter Benjamin, representing Maryland, was elected First Vice Chairman and Catherine Hudgins, representing Virginia, was elected Second Vice Chairman of the Metro Board.

News release issued at 12:25 pm, January 29, 2009.