Nominations Open for Sharon D. Banks Award

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is seeking nominations for the Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation. The submission deadline is July 31.

Sharon D. Banks served as general manager of AC Transit, Oakland, CA, from 1991-1999 and as chair of the TRB Executive Committee in 1998. She died in 1999. She was nationally known for her personal integrity, for nurturing and mentoring young transportation professionals, and for bringing together people of diverse backgrounds and commitments in the pursuit of organizational excellence.

The award is intended to honor those who typify Banks’s ideals of humanity and service. The award recipient will have a record of innovative and successful leadership in areas such as the education, training, and mentoring of transportation professionals and other people-oriented initiatives that bring together individuals of diverse backgrounds. Candidates will be considered from the broad spectrum of the transportation community, including all transportation modes, government, industry, and academia.

The award presentation will take place during the Chair’s Plenary Session, Jan. 14, 2026, at the TRB’s 104^th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

Learn more and submit nominations here by July 31. For questions, contact Victoria Sheehan, executive director, TRB, at [email protected].