The long-vacant job of MBTA general manager has finally been filled. Transportation officials chose Beverly Scott, CEO of the Atlanta transit system.

Scott will be the first African-American woman to lead the MBTA, according to the Boston Globe. Her salary will be $220,000, according to an announcement from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

In addition to running the Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority, Scott has previously been a top transit official in Sacramento, Calif. and Providence, R.I.

Scott faces many challenges at her new post, including finding long-term solutions to the MBTA's budget problems.

She will replace Medford resident Jonathan Davis, who has been interim general manager of the MBTA since August 2011.

For more on Scott and the applicants she beat out for the postition, please read this Boston Globe piece (registration or subscription may be required.)