USDOT honors Minority Enterprise Development - Personnel - Brief Article

Public Roads, March-April, 2003

On October 28, 2002, USDOT Secretary Norman Y. Mineta presented two FHWA employees, Charles E. Ford, J.D. of Lansing, MI, and William L. Parsons of Vancouver, WA, with awards that recognize minority and women entrepreneurs and USDOT employees who have made significant contributions to the transportation industry and the Nation's economy.

USDOT's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization presented the awards at a ceremony following the 20th annual national observance of Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week, which was celebrated September 24-27, 2002. Created in 1983, MED Week celebrates the achievements of exemplary minority entrepreneurs and the contributions of outstanding advocates on behalf of small, women-owned, and disadvantaged businesses. The theme for this year's MED Week was "Strategies for Growth in the American Economy, Part II: The Entrepreneurial Economy."