WASHINGTON, February 8, 2023 – The U.S. Division of Agriculture in the present day introduced the names of people who will maintain senior workers positions in Washington, D.C.
Cathy Cochran has been appointed Director of the Workplace of Communications
Cochran beforehand served as Press Secretary at USDA in the course of the Obama-Biden Administration, and she or he additionally held roles within the public affairs workplace of USDA’s Meals Security and Inspection Service. Most lately, Cochran was a Senior Vice President on Teneo’s Technique & Communications staff, primarily based in Washington, DC. Previous to that, she spent 5 years on the Glover Park Group (now FGS International), serving to to guide the agency’s meals and agriculture apply. Cochran holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Sewanee.
Mia Mayberry has been promoted to Chief of Employees to the Underneath Secretary for Advertising and Regulatory Packages
Mayberry has served at USDA since July 2021, beginning as Deputy Director of Exterior and Intergovernmental Affairs and, most lately, Appearing Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration. Earlier than becoming a member of the Division, she held roles with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar as Director of Outreach and Deputy Nationwide Political Director for her presidential marketing campaign. Earlier than that, Mayberry was the Iowa Deputy Political Director for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign, Vice Chairwoman and County Supervisor for the Rock Island County Board, and she or he labored as an lawyer, training employment regulation. She holds a bachelor’s diploma from Northeastern College and a Juris Physician from Valparaiso College Faculty of Regulation. Mayberry can be a proud native of Rock Island, Illinois.
Michele Altemus has been appointed Senior Advisor for Exterior Communications with the Pure Assets Conservation Service
Altemus involves USDA from Jacobson Strategic Communications in Philadelphia, PA, the place she has served as a Senior Communications Advisor since March 2018. She beforehand served within the Obama-Biden Administration for 4 years as a Senior Advisor at USDA and because the Chief of Employees on the Workplace of Floor Mining Reclamation and Enforcement on the Division of the Inside. Beforehand, Altemus represented PA Governor Rendell’s Washington, DC workplace for six years on environmental and agricultural points. She served within the Clinton Administration for eight years in a number of senior positions together with on the White Home Council on Environmental High quality, the White Home Girls’s Workplace, the Division of Transportation, and the Division of the Inside. Altemus holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism/Public Relations from the College of Southern California and a Juris Physician from The American College, Washington School of Regulation.
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