Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

Thomas C. Lambert was promoted to Senior Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO), serving Houston and much of Harris County, Texas in October 2010. He is currently responsible for assisting and working with leaders in the following departments to accomplish their established strategic priorities and operating principles; METRO Police, Performance Improvement, Safety, Real Estate & Property Management, Information Technology, Human Resources, Communications & Marketing, Facility Maintenance, Small Business, Procurement, and EEOC, Compliance & Organizational Development.

In his prior position within METRO, Mr. Lambert served as Senior Vice President & Chief of Police of the Department of Public Safety (currently METRO Police) and was responsible for directing and managing police operations, traffic management activities, high occupancy vehicle lane operations and management, emergency preparedness and operations, intelligent transportation systems projects and system safety. Before joining METRO in 1979, Mr. Lambert served as a Senior Police Officer with the Austin, Texas Police Department.

He has served as a member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Advisory Committee for the United States Department of Transportation, Past Chairman of the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America's Board of Directors and member of its Executive Committee, as Chairman and member of the American Public Transportation Association Public Safety Committee, Chairman of the Transportation Security Administration Peer Advisory Group, Chairman of the Leadership Team at Houston TranStar (the region's transportation and emergency management center), member of the Advisory Board of the University of Houston-Downtown Criminal Justice Training Center Law Enforcement Academy, member of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force Executive Board, member and Past President of the Houston Area Chiefs of Police Association, member of the Texas Police Chief’s Association, and is a life member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He currently serves as a lecturer/instructor at the Law Enforcement Management Institute Command College at Sam Houston State University.

Chief Lambert holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Southwest Texas State University and a master's in public administration from the University of Houston.