AASHTO Journal - Video: Profile of AASHTO President Garrett Eucalitto

A recent American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials video profiles Garrett Eucalitto (above) – commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation and AASHTO’s 2024-2025 president.

[Above photo by AASHTO]

The video traces Eucalitto’s journey into the transportation industry, his passion for improving mobility, and his strong focus on “Centering Safety.” Eucalitto also outlines the key emphasis areas for his one-year tenure as AASHTO’s president in the video – Safer Communities, Safer Users, and Safer Workers – while also highlighting the importance of reauthorizing federal surface transportation funding.

“Working in the [transportation] infrastructure space afforded me the opportunity to actually see something get built and see how it benefits the community that I grew up in,” he explained in the video. “This just something that just reinforced why I was so passionate about my state, the community I grew up, and the transportation field I am now in.”

Eucalitto previously served as AASHTO vice president after his election by AASHTO’s board in November 2023. He assumed the last two months of AASHTO President Craig Thompson’s tenure in September 2024 when Thompson stepped down from his position as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for a role outside of the transportation industry. That made Eucalitto AASHTO’s first openly gay president.

Nominated by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D) and unanimously confirmed by the state’s legislature as CTDOT commissioner in January 2023, Eucalitto previously served as the agency’s deputy commissioner for three years.

Prior to joining CTDOT, he served as the transportation program director for the National Governors Association, as well as undersecretary for the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management and as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. Eucalitto holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a master’s degree from Boston University.