Deputy Secretary

Scott Lawry, Deputy Secretary

Scott Lawry, Deputy Secretary

Scott Lawry was appointed Deputy Secretary at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation in October 2024. In this role, Scott oversees the department’s operations, which includes 3,200 employees, dozens of field offices and a biennial budget of more than $8 billion.

Scott has spent his entire professional career with WisDOT, beginning as an intern at the Division of Transportation System Development (DTSD) Southwest Region La Crosse office in 1987. Upon graduating from UW-Madison in Civil Engineering, Scott joined WisDOT full time in May 1991 in the La Crosse office where he worked as a staff engineer, project manager and supervisor in the technical services and project development sections. He then served as the Proposal Management Section Chief for five years, the Director of the Bureau of Technical Services for four years and Deputy Administrator of DTSD for about three years.

Scott remains a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Wisconsin. He and his significant other live in Prairie du Sac and they have five adult children and three grandsons.