Curtis Anderson is the deputy administrator of the Rural Utilities Service.

Before joining USDA, from June 1995 until his appointment to this position Anderson served as chief financial officer, general counsel, and assistant secretary-treasurer for the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture at its headquarters office in Washington, DC. He was an assistant to [then] U.S. Rep. Barbara Vucanovich (R-Nev.) during 1995.

From 1990-94 Anderson served as secretary to the board of both the Farm Credit Administration and the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.

He worked as an attorney-advisor in the Solicitor’s Office at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1988-90. From 1983-88 he was an attorney in private practice in Tulsa, Okla., where his work included gas utility, interstate gas pipeline, and cellular telecommunications
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