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     Bill Clay was selected as the deputy administrator for wildlife services in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. He succeeded Bobby Acord, who served in that position from March 1990 until August 1999, when he became the associate administrator for APHIS.

     From 1997 until his recent selection, Clay served as APHIS’s associate deputy administrator for wildlife services. He was director of the Wildlife Services Operational Support Staff in APHIS’s Riverdale, Md., office from 1990-97. From 1989-90 he served as APHIS’s wildlife services state director for North Dakota, based in Bismarck. He was the assistant to the state director for APHIS wildlife services in Texas, based in San Antonio, from 1986-89.

     Clay worked as a soil conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Seguin, Texas, from 1982-86. From 1979-82 he was an urban wildlife damage control specialist with the Texas State Wildlife Services Program, based in San Antonio. He worked as an assistant driller on an offshore oil rig off the coast of Brazil in 1978, after having worked as an assistant driller on an oil rig in southern Iran from 1975-77.

     A native of San Antonio, Clay holds a B.S. degree in wildlife management from Texas Tech University.