John Clayton, area maintenance superintendent for the Kansas Department of Transportation Great Bend Area Office, retired on Nov. 1 after 29 years of service to the State of Kansas.

As the Great Bend area maintenance superintendent, Clayton oversaw the KDOT crews maintaining the Kansas highway system in Barton, Pawnee, Rice, Rush and Stafford counties. The duties of the KDOT maintenance shops in these counties includes snow removal, pavement repairs, placing signs and mowing right-of-way.

Clayton began working at KDOT in 1982 as an Equipment Operator I in the Lyons subarea office.