Vicki A. O'Meara, age 49, is the President - U.S. Supply Chain Solutions, for Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a leading transportation and supply chain solutions company headquartered in Miami, Florida. Ms. O'Meara joined Ryder as Executive Vice President and General Counsel in June 1997 from the Chicago office of the law firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, where she was a partner and chair of the firm's global Environmental, Health and Safety Group. Ms. O'Meara has also served in a variety of federal government positions in Washington, D.C., including Assistant Attorney General under the first President Bush, heading the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Assistant to the General Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of the Army. Ms. O'Meara was a 1986-87 White House Fellow, and in that capacity, she served as Special Assistant to the White House Counsel and as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet Domestic Policy Council. |