Obituaries

Railway Age, Feb, 2008

Maggie Jacobsen, a former member of the National Mediation Board who was a strong advocate of improved labor-management relations and an early proponent of "interest-based bargaining," died Jan. 7. Jacobsen began her career in 1965 as a Continental Airlines flight attendant and union representative. In 1972, she became a labor relations manager for Continental, and in 1976 became a mediator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a National Labor Relations Act agency. President Bill Clinton appointed her to the NMB in 1993.

George D. Warrington, who in a long public transportation career was President of Amtrak and Executive Director of NJ Transit, died Dec. 24, 2007, from pancreatic cancer. He was 55. Warrington's career began in 1975 at the New Jersey DOT. He was appointed Deputy Executive Director of fledgling agency NJT in 1980. He later became Executive Director of the Delaware River Port Authority before joining Amtrak in 1994 as head of its Northeast Corridor business unit. He left Amtrak in 2002 after five years as president for NJT. Warrington resigned from NJT in February 2007 to form a consulting firm, Warrington Fox Shuffler.