Bill Smith is the assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operations in the Food Safety and Inspection Service.

From June 2001 until his selection for this position Smith served as FSIS’s associate deputy administrator for field operations. From 1999-2001 he was the [then] assistant deputy administrator for district inspection operations for FSIS, after having been [then] executive director for district inspection operations from 1994-99.

Smith served as deputy regional director, and subsequently as acting regional director, of FSIS’s Northeast Region in Philadelphia from 1993-94. From 1990-92 he was director of FSIS’s [then] Processed Products Inspection Division in Washington, DC. He worked as a regional quality control specialist in the agency’s Northeast Region from 1984-86, after having begun his career with the agency in 1976 as a food inspector in Lancaster, Pa.

Mark Mina, the previous assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operations in FSIS, retired from that position following over 30 years of service with the agency. •