Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, who has served as director of St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) since 2010, will retire in the fall of 2026, the city of St. Louis announced.
Hamm-Niebruegge’s key achievements during her tenure include leading the airport through natural disaster, helping secure new international flight service, and putting in motion a plan to transform the airport in the coming years.
“On its best day, running something as complex as a major airport is challenging work. For fifteen years, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge has led our airport with excellence, grace, and distinction. I want to thank her for her service to St. Louis,” said St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer. “Our airport and our region are much better off as a result of her leadership, and her work developing the plan to transform the airport has set the stage for our next chapter.”
Hamm-Niebruegge said it has been an honor to serve the city over the past 15 years. “This has been a remarkable opportunity to transform the airport into not only the transportation center the region needs, but also the modern front door St. Louis deserves,” she said. “It has been a true honor to lead this airport for the past fifteen years, and I will depart knowing that we will leave it better than we found it. The best days for Lambert and for St. Louis lie ahead.”
