USDANEWS VOLUME 56 NO. 5 - MAY 1997

Editor's Roundup
USDA people in the news

Robert Lewis was selected as deputy chief for research with the Forest Service. He succeeded Jerry Sesco, who served in that position from March 1988 until April 1997, and who is now the special assistant for strategic policy issues for FS Chief Mike Dombeck.

From December 1992 until his recent selection, Lewis served as director of the Forest Service's Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, based in Radnor, Pa. He worked as the staff assistant to the deputy chief for research, at the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC, from 1991-92. From 1989-91 he was assistant director for research at the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, where he supervised agency research programs in the six New England states and New York. He served as assistant director for planning and applications at the Experiment Station from 1986-89.

From 1976-86 Lewis worked as a research plant pathologist at the Forest Service's Hardwood Research Laboratory in Stoneville, Miss. During that 10-year period he authored more than 40 research papers on canker diseases, oak wilt, and forest health problems. He began his career with the Forest Service as a biological technician in Stoneville in 1970.

A native of Sunflower County, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta, Lewis holds a B.S. degree in biology from Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., and a Ph.D. degree in plant pathology from Texas A&M University. ¤

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