USDANEWS VOLUME 55 NO. 6 - JULY 1996

Richard Newman was named as deputy administrator for farm programs with the Farm Service Agency. This is a new alignment reflecting restructuring as part of USDA's Oct. 1994 reorganization.

From Sept. 1994 until his appointment Newman was director of the Southwest Area Office of the [then] Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, based in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for agency programs in 10 states, Guam, and several other Pacific Islands. He served as a district director of the [then] Texas State ASCS office in College Station from 1976-94, after having worked as an agricultural program specialist in that office from 1975-76.

From 1963-75 Newman served in a number of positions for the agency, all in Texas, including county executive director for Shackelford County, Motley County, and then Lamb County. He owned and operated a wheat and livestock operation in Jones County, Texas, from 1978-94, after having farmed from 1963-78 in other parts of the state.

A native of Jones County, Newman holds a bachelor of business administration degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.¤

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