Anne Canby

Anne P. Canby
Commissioner of New Jersey Department of Transportation
In office
November 16, 1981 – April 16, 1982
Acting: August 13, 1981 – November 16, 1981
GovernorBrendan Byrne
Preceded byLouis Gambaccini
Succeeded byJohn Sheridan
Personal details
Alma materWheaton College (Massachusetts)

Anne P. Canby served in the cabinet of Governor Brendan Byrne as the New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation from 1981 to 1982 and in the cabinet of Governor Thomas R. Carper as the Delaware Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 2001. She also served as the Treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. She is the President of Surface Transportation Policy Partnership.[1]

A native of Delaware, Canby attended Wheaton College. While serving as Commissioner of Transportation in New Jersey, she would sometimes ride her bicycle from her home in Pennington to her office in Trenton.[2]

  1. ^ "Anne P. Canby". The Metropolitan Planning Organization. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  2. ^ DePalma, Anthony. "TRANSPORTATION: IT'S DECISION TIME", The New York Times, November 22, 1981. Accessed March 29, 2016. "A resident of Pennington, she sometimes bicycles to her office in Trenton, a distance of four and a half miles."