Paul Gutierrez is the deputy assistant secretary for civil rights.

From January 2003 until his appointment to this position Gutierrez served as the assistant deputy administrator for farm programs in the Farm Service Agency. He was the FSA state executive director for New Mexico, based in Albuquerque, from 2001-03. From 1997-2001 and, earlier, from 1993-95 he was based in Albuquerque as director of governmental affairs for the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau. During that time he also worked from 1996-2001 as a consultant for the Albuquerque-based Farm Credit Services of New Mexico.

Gutierrez served as the assistant vice president of credit for the Albuquerque-based Production Credit Association in New Mexico from 1995-97.

This is a newly created position. •