USDANEWS VOLUME 58 NO. 7 —September 1999
Kathleen Merrigan was appointed as the
adminstrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service. 
Charles
Laughlin was selected as the administrator of the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. 
Bobby Acord was
selected as the associate administrator of the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service. 
George Aldaya
was selected as the deputy director of the Office of Operations.
Larry
Mitchell was named as the deputy administrator for farm programs in the
Farm Service Agency.
Charles Adams was selected
as the regional conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation
Service's Southeast Region , based in Atlanta. 
Rita
Thibodeau wasn't 'vegging out'--but she was working with vegetables,
on a Saturday morn.
