Michael "Mike" Anderson has been chosen as the new district engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation office in Atlanta.
Effective Monday, Anderson replaces Glenn Green, who recently returned to the Tyler District as district engineer.
Anderson will oversee the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the state transportation system for the nine-county Atlanta District, said Marcus Sandifer, district spokesman.
Anderson comes to Atlanta from the maintenance division in Austin, where he served as deputy director since 2015.
A 33-year TxDOT veteran, Anderson began his career in 1983 as an engineer assistant but left the department for 18 months for the private sector. In 1985, he returned to TxDOT as assistant area engineer in the Atlanta District's Carthage area office.
When the Carthage and Marshall area offices merged in 2008, Anderson assumed the role of the district's construction engineer. In October 2012, he was named the Marshall area engineer, and in August 2015, he was appointed deputy director of the TxDOT Maintenance Division in Austin.
Anderson earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1983 and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and Louisiana.
The Atlanta District includes Bowie, Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Panola, Titus and Upshur Counties.
For more information, email [email protected] or call 903-799-1306.