President Obama has reappointed National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman to another five-year term on the transportation safety panel.
Hersman has played a high-profile role in the investigation of the crash of an Asiana Airlines airplane in San Francisco last month.
She was thought to be a possible contender for the position of Transportation secretary, which Obama eventually appointed Anthony Foxx to.
{mosads}Hersman was first appointed to the NTSB by former President George W. Bush, and later she was appointed chairwoman of the panel by Obama.
Her latest appointment from Obama is for another two-year term as NTSB chairwoman and a five-year term as a member of the panel.