Edna Stanley

COMTO SoCal President, Council of Presidents Representative

Edna Stanley is the Vice President of Light Rail Operations at Sacramento Regional Transit District. She oversees day-to-day transportation responsibilities, and critical business and support functions, including training. Edna also directs the development of service delivery plans to efficiently manage SacRT's light rail services including daily operations, maintenance, and the Operations Control Center.

Edna has 20 years of transportation experience and has been promoted through increasingly responsible technical and supervisory positions based on expertise, demonstrated initiative, and contributions to operational safety and efficiency. She’s held almost every Bus and Rail operations position including Bus Operator, Station Manager, Train Operator, Dispatch Supervisor, Rail Operations Supervisor, Central Control Supervisor, Roadway Worker Protection Instructor, and Chief Operations Supervisor. Prior to SacRT, Edna was a Service Operations Superintendent LA Metro, the Manager of Station Operations at the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), and a Superintendent at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

Edna is a is a mentor for Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), and a member of the League of Railway Women and the APTA Rail Safety and International Rail Rodeo Committees. She previously served on the Southern California Cohort of the Government Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE); a federal initiative focused on systematically advancing racial equity across jurisdictions nation-wide.

Edna graduated cum laude from Mary Baldwin University with BA in Business. In her spare time, she loves to bake cakes and travel around the world.