Carolina L Mederos

Carolina Mederos, chair of the firm’s Transportation, Infrastructure, and Federal Funding Practice, counsels transportation and municipal clients on congressional and executive branch policy and legislative and regulatory matters, with an emphasis on creative federal funding and infrastructure development. She has the lead responsibility for many of the firm’s major transportation and municipal clients and has obtained over a billion dollars in authorizing and appropriations funding on their behalf. Ms. Mederos regularly advises municipal, state, and local governments and private entities on federal funding strategies, including appropriations, grants, formulas, tax issues, and public policy matters. She has assisted municipalities in obtaining appropriations earmarks and grants for transportation, downtown and riverfront revitalization, water, sewer, housing, law enforcement, health, and historic preservation projects, among others. Ms. Mederos also represents major domestic and international corporations in policy matters before Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and in marketing transportation and telecommunications technologies to highway, transit, and airport authorities; motor carriers; and public safety entities. Ms. Mederos’ strong knowledge of transportation issues and municipal matters is a direct result of having been involved in the development of every surface transportation and aviation reauthorization proposal and DOT appropriations act over the last 30 years. Previously, Ms. Mederos served for more than 13 years in senior positions in the Office of the Secretary of the DOT, including as deputy assistant secretary for Safety and as deputy assistant secretary for Policy and International Affairs. She also served as director of Programs and Evaluation, where she was responsible for developing and defending the entire Department’s authorizing and appropriations legislation before the Office of Management and Budget and Congress.