Kathleen Merrigan

Kathleen A. Merrigan
Kathleen A. Merrigan
United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
	In office; April 8, 2009 – March 14, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Chuck Conner
Succeeded by	Krysta Harden
Personal details
Born	October 6, 1959 (age 65); Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Political party	Democratic

Kathleen Ann Merrigan was sworn in as the United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture on April 8, 2009.^[2] She resigned from this position on March 14, 2013.^[3]

Merrigan gives a thumbs up with the cafeteria nutrition staff while visiting Carl G. Renfroe Middle School in Decatur, Georgia

Merrigan helped develop USDA's organic labeling rules while head of the Agricultural Marketing Service from 1999 to 2001.^[4] Between her USDA positions, she worked at Tufts University as Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She has a PhD in environmental planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[5]

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Kathleen A. Merrigan


United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
In office April 8, 2009 – March 14, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Chuck Conner
Succeeded by	Krysta Harden

Personal details
Born	(1959-10-06) October 6, 1959 (age 65) Pittsfield, Massachusetts^[1]
Political party	Democratic