Rotarian David Cox presented Andy McNair, Chief Engineer District 3, Mississippi Department of Transportation as the Rotary Club of Vicksburg’s speaker at the club’s September 5 meeting. Pictured are Cox, McNair and Rotary President Wayne Pratt.

As District 3 Engineer, McNair oversees construction and maintenance projects throughout the area, which covers the state’s western most counties, from Jefferson County up the Mississippi River to Bolivar County.

McNair, P.E., received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Mississippi State University in 1990 before beginning his career at MDOT in the hydraulics section of the Bridge Division. He moved to the Traffic Engineering Division in 1999 where he served as an area traffic engineer in several districts across the state.

In 2013, McNair took on the role of Assistant State Traffic Engineer, providing oversight of engineering, the Jackson sign shop, signal shop and sign field crews. He is a native of Brandon.