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Mr. Skinner was elected to the Board of Directors of Navigant Consulting, Inc. in December 1999. He is the Retired Chairman, President and CEO of U.S. Freightways Corporation. Mr. Skinner recently was previously President of the Commonwealth Edison Company and its holding company, Unicom Corporation. After retiring from Commonwealth Edison Company and Unicom, Mr. Skinner served as Co-Chairman of Hopkins & Sutter, a national law firm based in Chicago. During his five years at Unicom, he helped position the company for the emerging competitive market and led the company’s successful effort to obtain successful legislation to restructure the electric utility industry in Illinois.
Prior to joining Commonwealth Edison, he served as Chief of Staff to President George Bush. Prior to his White House service, Mr. Skinner served in the President’s cabinet for nearly three years as Secretary of Transportation and was credited with numerous successes, including the development of the President’s National Transportation Policy and the passage of landmark aviation and surface transportation legislation.
From 1977 to 1989, Mr. Skinner practiced law as a senior partner in the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin. From 1984 to 1998, while practicing law full-time, he also served as Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority of northeastern Illinois and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Vice Chairman of the President’s Commission on Organized Crime. | 