Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KyTC) Secretary Mike Hancock today announced appointment of the new chief district engineer for the Department of Highways district in Paducah.
Mike McGregor, a 16-year employee of the Cabinet, takes over as chief district engineer for District 1, headquartered in Paducah. He succeeds Jim LeFevre, who retired.
McGregor had been serving as interim chief district engineer.
McGregor, a native of Paducah, has spent his KyTC professional career in District 1. He first worked for the Cabinet while an engineering student at the University of Kentucky (UK). He joined the Cabinet as an engineer in training in 1997 and has held multiple supervisory positions. McGregor has been intimately involved in the current project to build new bridges over Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake.
“I have had the opportunity to work in several areas in District 1, with the long-term goal of being as prepared as I can be as a chief district engineer,” McGregor said. “I look forward to delivering our road program.”
McGregor received a bachelor of science in civil engineering from UK in 1997 and a master of business administration from Murray State University in 2003. He has been a Licensed Professional Engineer since 2002.
McGregor and his wife Leigh Ann have two daughters and live in Lone Oak.
District 1 is comprised of 12 counties in the Jackson Purchase and western Pennyrile regions: Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken and Trigg.
