USDANEWS VOLUME 58 NO.3 - MARCH-APRIL 1999
Thomas Weber was selected as the deputy chief for programs in the Natural Resources Conservation Service. He succeeded Lawrence Clark, who served in that position from October 1996 until January 1999, and is now NRCS’s deputy chief for science and technology.
From April 1998 until his recent selection, Weber served as NRCS’s deputy chief for science and technology. He was acting chief of the agency from November 1997 to April 1998. He served during 1997 as deputy chief for management, after having served from 1995-96 as deputy chief for programs.
From 1993-94 Weber was NRCS’s state conservationist in New Mexico, based in Albuquerque. He served as the agency’s deputy state conservationist in California, based in Davis, from 1990-93, after having worked at that location as assistant state conservationist for operations management from 1989-90. From 1986-89 he was NRCS’s state administrative officer in St. Paul, Minn., after having worked at that location as its assistant state administrative officer from 1978-86.
Weber was an NRCS contract specialist in Spokane, Wash., from 1976-78, after having worked as a budget officer at that location from 1975-76. From 1974-75 he was an NRCS administrative assistant in Raleigh, N.C. He began his career with the agency in 1972 as a soil scientist in Sterling, Colo.
A native of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., where he grew up on a farm, Weber holds a B.S. degree in resource management from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. degree in forestry from Northern Arizona University, and an M.S. degree in management from Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
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