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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Kathleen Merrigan has been nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama to be deputy secretary of Agriculture, officials said Tuesday.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Merrigan, currently an agriculture professor at Tufts University in Boston, "will bring to (the Agriculture Department) extensive expertise in agricultural marketing and nutrition and in legislative affairs and will provide excellent, experienced leadership as we move President Obama's agricultural and nutritional agenda forward."
Merrigan in 1999 was appointed administrator of the department's Agricultural Marketing Service by President Bill Clinton.
Prior to that, she was a senior analyst at the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture and an expert consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Agriculture Department officials said.
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