Chester Gipson is the deputy administrator for animal care in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

From November 2001 until his selection to this position Gipson served as acting deputy administrator for animal care with APHIS. He was the agency’s associate deputy administrator for veterinary services from 2000-2001, after having served as director of animal health programs in veterinary services from 1997-2000.

Gipson was the Tampa, Fla.-based director of the Southeastern Region for APHIS’s veterinary services operations from 1996-97, after having served as assistant director at that location from 1990-96.

He began his career with the agency in 1979 as a veterinary medical officer in veterinary services in APHIS’s Sheep, Goat, Equine, Ectoparasite, and Miscellaneous Disease Staff in Hyattsville, Md., and continued to work as a veterinary medical officer in veterinary services for APHIS until 1990.

Ron DeHaven, the previous deputy administrator for animal care in APHIS, is now that agency’s deputy administrator for veterinary services.•