Thomas A. Zlaket To Chair The Tucson Airport Authority

Thomas A. Zlaket has assumed the chairmanship of the Tucson Airport Authority (TAA) at its annual meeting this week. In addition, the membership elected three new board members and six new TAA members.

Thomas A. Zlaket

A member of TAA since 2003, Zlaket was elected to the board of directors in 2007. He began practicing law in Tucson in 1965 and served in the Arizona Supreme Court from 1992 to 2002, moving from associate justice, to vice chief justice, to chief justice in 1997.

An attorney in private practice for the past 10 years, Zlaket is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and is chief judge of the Tonto Apache Nation Tribal Court of Appeals.

Active in community affairs, Zlaket is a member of several professional organizations, including the DM50, an advocacy group for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and the Arizona chapter of The Nature Conservancy, for which he is a trustee.

The Authority’s newly elected members are Michael Duran of Tucson Medical Center, Michael Hammond of PICOR Commercial Real Estate Services, Rosemary Koberlein of The Long Companies, Tim Overton of Wells Fargo, Judith Patrick of SCF Arizona and Richard Underwood of AAA Landscape.

Continuing on the board this year are Lisa Israel, chairman-elect; Steven Fell, secretary; Steven Cole, treasurer; Chanda S. Budhabhatti, assistant secretary; Gregory A. Pivirotto, assistant treasurer; and Rubin Salter, immediate past chairman. Edwin Biggers, Michael Hannley and Tony Finley were newly elected to the board.