Minnesota Highway Department and Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioners: 1917 - Present Compiled by the MnDOT Library Minnesota Highway Department Commissioners 1917 - 1932 Charles Merit Babcock 1933 - 1938 N. (Nels) W. Elsberg 1939 - 1957 M. (Michael) Joseph Hoffman 1957 - 1961 L.P. (Loyal Percy) Zimmerman 1961 - 1965 James C. Marshall 1965 - 1967 John R. Jamieson 1968 - 1971 N.T. (Nils Theodore) Waldor 1971 - 1974 Ray (Lenard) Lappegaard 1975 - 1976 Frank Dominic Marzitelli Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioners 1976 - 1978 James Harrington 1979 - 1986 Dick Braun 1986 - 1991 Leonard Levine 1991 John H. Riley 1991 - 1999 James Denn 1999 - 2002 Elwyn Tinklenberg 2003 - 2008 Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau 2008 - 2012 Thomas K. Sorel 2013 - 2019 Charles A. Zelle 2019 - 2022 Margaret Anderson Kelliher 2022 - Present Nancy Daubenberger