Rick Vacar is Director of the City of Houston Department of Aviation. He is responsible for the overall management of the Houston Airport System’s three aviation facilities -- George Bush Intercontinental Airport, William P. Hobby Airport, and Ellington Field – and its 1,600 employees.

Prior to his early 1998 appointment, Mr. Vacar served nearly two and a half years as the department’s deputy director of aviation/chief operating officer.

He has served as executive director of Florida’s Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority, and as deputy director of operations and noise program/environmental manager of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.

Mr. Vacar is a licensed attorney admitted to practice in California and several federal courts, an Air Force veteran, and a licensed pilot. The former commuter airline and corporate pilot has previously worked in several positions with the Federal Aviation Administration.