Zach Ducheneaux is from South Dakota and a Native American, the first for FSA. USDA announcement.
Gloria Montano Greene is nominated to be Deputy Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation. She has been state executive director for Arizona in the Obama administration, while Ducheneaux isn't shown as having any FSA experience.
I wonder--the Trump Administration reorganized USDA--IIRC they moved NRCS and FSA into the same undersecretary's remit, where it had been FAS and FSA together? Wonder if Vilsack will go back to the old organization or keep the new. The establishment of the FPAC Business Center to serve admin functions of NRCS and FSA would argue for keeping the new, but I've no idea of how well that is working nor whether there could be any advantage politically to reorganizing.
