{"id":330659,"date":"2026-07-06T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:47:23","slug":"nat-ford-stepping-down-as-ceo-of-jacksonville-transportation-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330659\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Ford stepping down as CEO of Jacksonville Transportation Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Ford, CEO of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/05\/05\/jta-skyway-meetings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Transportation Authority<\/a>, will leave his position with the authority, according to a news release from JTA.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h969105-p2\">Ford, JTA\u2019s CEO for 13 years, will remain with the authority through Jan. 8, according to the release. The JTA board is set to discuss selection for the authority\u2019s next CEO at a board meeting July 29.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h969105-p3\">\u201cThe JTA is operationally strong and well-positioned for the future,\u201d Ford said in the release.\u00a0\u201cI have full confidence in the leadership team\u2019s ability to continue advancing our mission. It has been the greatest professional honor of my career to serve this organization, this city, and this region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/03\/jacksonville-transportation-authority-ceo-nat-ford-stepping-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nat Ford, CEO of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, will leave his position with the authority, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-330659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}