TriMet News: (VIDEO) Calm, steady and in Control: TriMet’s James Brown named agency’s first Supervisor of the Year

Behind a nondescript door flanked by a backlit, engraved glass mural, lies one of TriMet’s most important rooms. It’s a room so secure only a handful of people have access to it.

One of them is TriMet’s Supervisor of the Year, James Brown. And he knows exactly what you’re thinking: Yes, his parents were fans, and no, he doesn’t dance. While the other James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, proclaimed himself the “hardest working man in show business,” TriMet’s James Brown exhibits a bit more humility. In fact, he says when he was named TriMet’s Supervisor of the Year for 2025, he was overcome by emotion. Read more …