A Mississippi state legislator who is a lifelong farmer and a project manager experienced in wastewater management has been appointed assistant chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Kenneth Walker, who grew up on a cattle operation in Leake County, Mississippi, has served as vice chairman of the House Workforce Development Committee and as a member of the Agriculture, Water and Conservation, Education, Energy, and Forestry committees.
Before his election to the state House, Walker oversaw the maintenance and operation of the Jackson, Mississippi, wastewater treatment plant.
Ramón Correa-Colón, a lawyer and former legislative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, has been named oversight director for USDA’s Office of Congressional Relations, and Jaime Jackson will be a senior adviser in USDA’s Rural Utilities Service.
Before his time on Capitol Hill, Correa-Colón was general counsel and policy adviser in the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico in Washington. He previously was a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
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Jackson most recently served as investment director at a clean energy finance authority. USDA says “she led over $25 million in deployment of capital that benefited affordable community housing,” She also spent 11 years at the Export-Import Bank, where USDA says she “led a $1.2 billion portfolio of power and high-technology corporate and project finance transactions spanning across Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.”
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