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California Sen. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg has been sworn in as the new Senate president pro tempore and JJ Schlangen has been tapped as the new president of the central region of the United Natural Foods Inc.

Ken Barbic has joined Invariant as a new principal of the food and agriculture practice group and Vestaron has selected Juan Estupinan as the company’s interim CEO and president.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has appointed Katy Mastman as the agency's acting assistant for labor and Thad Bettner is the new executive director of the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors.

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai has appointed Katy Mastman as the acting assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Labor, and the North American Renderers Association has selected Jennifer Wilson to be the association’s new EU-UK Representative.

Daniel Mathieson has been tapped as the next president of the Americas for Driscoll’s, and Stacy McBride has been named Husch Blackwell Strategies’ first executive vice president of federal government affairs.

Blake Zante has been named as the new executive director of The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute and Robin Vercruse has been named the executive director of the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition.

In this week's Farm Hands, the U.S. Trade Representative's office is undergoing staff changes and may get a new nominee for deputy. Plus, we profile several other new jobs and promotions on Capitol Hill, within trade associations and businesses.

The Organic Trade Association has named Matthew Dillon as the group's co-CEO.

Jackie Applegate has announced she is retiring from Bayer at the end of March and the Organic Trade Association has added a new co-CEO.