President & CEO

A. Bradley Mims serves as President and CEO of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), the nation’s leading advocacy organization for minority professionals and businesses in the transportation and infrastructure industry.

Mr. Mims has served as a transportation professional in government and the private sector for over forty years. As a government relations specialist with a multi modal transportation background, Mims holds a special affinity for the entire transportation industry.

From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Mims served as transportation and infrastructure senior advisor to the Mid-Atlantic Laborers' Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET), a group committed to advocating the mutual interests of Labor and Management in the transportation and infrastructure construction sector. He provided workforce development, legislative, state and federal government and transportation-industry government affairs, and business consulting to the organization.

Previously, Mr. Mims served as Vice President - Aviation Market Leader for Parsons Brinckerhoff and as Senior Associate for the Transportation Group at Booz/Allen/Hamilton. He also served in the Clinton Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, and Assistant Administrator for Government and Industry Affairs respectively.

Mr. Mims served as Congressional Liaison for the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum and the National African American Museum. Mr. Mims served as staff on Capitol Hill for more than 12 years as transportation staffer to Members of Congress including: Congressman John Lewis of Georgia and Julian Dixon of California.

Mr. Mims holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Allegheny College. Mr. Mims serves on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, appointed by the Governor of Maryland in 2014. Mr. Mims is a former member of the Board of Directors and Legislative Advisor to COMTO, a current Member of the Board of the Central Maryland Regional Transportation Authority, former member of the Board of Directors for the Airport Consultants Council, and former Board Member of the Maryland Transportation Authority MDTA.