Kathleen Merrigan

Kathleen Merrigan
United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
In office April 8, 2009 – May 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Chuck Conner
Succeeded by	Krysta Harden
Personal details
Born	October 6, 1959 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Williams College University of Texas, Austin Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kathleen Ann Merrigan (born October 6, 1959)^[1] was sworn in as the United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture on April 8, 2009.^[2] She resigned from this position on March 14, 2013.^[3]

Merrigan gives a thumbs up with the cafeteria nutrition staff while visiting Carl G. Renfroe Middle School in Decatur, Georgia

Merrigan helped develop USDA's organic labeling rules while head of the Agricultural Marketing Service from 1999 to 2001.^[4] Between her USDA positions, she worked at Tufts University as Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She has a PhD in environmental planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[5]

References

1. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (2010). Hearing to Consider the Nominations of Joe Leonard, Jr., Kathleen A. Merrigan, and James W. Miller to the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, April 1, 2009. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 59. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
2. "Congressional Record: 2009 Daily Digest". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
3. "Kathleen Merrigan Resigns as U.S. Deputy Agriculture Secretary - Bloomberg Business". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
4. Id.
5. Merrigan, Kathleen A. - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy - Tufts University at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

External links

• Kathleen Merrigan on Twitter