Carol House is the associate administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

From October 1999 until her selection to this position House served as director of NASS’s Research and Development Division. She was director of its [then] Survey Management Division from 1996-99. She began her 27-year full-time career with NASS in 1976 as a mathematical statistician at the agency’s headquarters office in Washington, DC.

Rich Allen, the previous associate administrator for NASS, is now its deputy administrator for programs and products and chair of NASS’s Agricultural Statistics Board.•