South West Transit Association

Heather Dalmolin has served as the CEO and General Manager of the Mountain Line transit system in Flagstaff, Arizona since February 2020.  She started her transit career in 2002 as an Accounting Technician with Mountain Line before moving into her prior position of Administrative Director where she wore many hats, from IT Manager to CFO.  As the CEO, her skills in human resources, finance, and grant management have been key to the agency’s ability to adapt to new staffing challenges and to find the necessary funding to keep the system not only whole but prepared for expansion.  Heather is known by staff and partners for having an open door and can regularly be found working with employees from across the agency to innovate and solve problems.  She is passionate about Mountain Line’s mission of “Getting you where you want to go,” whether she is talking with riders, the community, or employees.

Mountain Line is a high performing small urban transit system, serving as many as 2.5 million riders.  Mountain Line was the first agency in the state of Arizona to convert to Hybrid Electric Buses in 2009 and is the middle of transitioning to a Battery Electric fleet.