Mike Torrey is the deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations.

Before joining USDA, from 2002 until his appointment to this position Torrey served as vice president of legislative affairs for the Washington, DC-based International Dairy Foods Association, after having been its senior director for legislative affairs from 1998-2002. During the 1990s he worked as a legislative assistant to three [then] U.S. Senators representing Kansas: Bob Dole, Nancy Kassebaum, and Sheila Frahm, where he concentrated on agricultural policy and related issues.

Wanda Worsham, the previous deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations, retired from that position following over 31 years of federal service. •