Tim Gatz was reappointed Secretary of Transportation by Gov. Kevin Stitt in February 2026.

He was also appointed as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in 2019 and reappointed in 2024. Prior to that designation, Gatz served as Secretary of Transportation and as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority and Executive Director of ODOT.

He has dedicated more than three decades to transportation. Gatz started his career at ODOT as a drafting technician in 1990. Then in 1992, he became the Enhancements Program coordinator and moved up to Special Projects manager in 1997. In 2000, he became division manager of the Project Management Division where he was instrumental in the development of ODOT’s Eight-year Construction Work Plan.

Gatz has dedicated more than three decades of service to transportation, beginning his career at ODOT as a drafting technician in 1990 and rising to become part of ODOT’s executive team in 2006. He was instrumental in the development of ODOT’s project management methodologies, Eight-Year Construction Work Plan and is credited with streamlining many project delivery processes at ODOT during his transportation career. Under Gatz’s leadership, Oklahoma became fourth in the nation for good bridge conditions, with only a tiny percentage of the state’s nearly 6,800 bridges ranking as structurally deficient. Gatz is credited with streamlining many project delivery processes at ODOT during the course of his transportation career. He served as Deputy Director from 2013 until his appointment to OTA in 2016.

Gatz earned a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Oklahoma State University in 1989 and is a registered professional landscape architect. He has received several honors including the Oklahoma Good Roads & Transportation Association’s Bill Skeith Stewardship Award, the Governor’s Public Service Award and the Federal Highway Administration’s Partners in Quality Award. He is a member of the United States and State of Oklahoma Route 66 Centennial Commissions, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects.