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Bobby Acord was selected as the administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

From September 2001 until his selection to this position in November 2001 Acord served as acting administrator for APHIS. He was also APHIS’s associate administrator from August 1999 until 2001. From 1990-99 he was deputy administrator for wildlife services in APHIS.

Acord served in several managerial positions in APHIS’s [then] Animal Damage Control unit from 1986-89, both in Denver, Colo., and Washington, DC, after having worked in several other areas of responsibility in APHIS from 1973-86. He began his federal career as an Agricultural Marketing Service agricultural commodity grader in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1966.

Acord holds a B.S. degree in animal science from West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va.

Craig Reed, the previous APHIS administrator, held that position from July 1998 until September 2001, when he became a visiting professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., as well as work on the development of a Joint Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health. •