The Budget and Advocacy Committee and the Committee on Legislation and Policy of the APLU Board on Agriculture Assembly
Committee on Legislation and Policy
The Committee on Legislation and Policy (CLP) is one of two standing committees of the Board on Agriculture's Policy Board of Directors, and is responsible for coordinating all activities of the Board on Agriculture Assembly (BAA) as it relates to Farm Bill legislation and other legislative and/or regulatory activities of interest to the BAA. This includes: developing and implementing strategies in the initial development of the legislation; coordinating a support base for initiatives development by the CLP as the legislation moves through the Congress and/or the Executive Branch; and, monitoring and impacting subsequent programs and regulations that are authorized in the legislation.
The voting membership of the Board on Agriculture Assembly's Committee on Legislation and Policy is representative of the diverse agricultural interests served by the Board on Agriculture Assembly.
Chair
Marshall Stewart
Vice Chancellor of Extension and Engagement
University of Missouri
Academic Programs Section
Josef M. Broder
Associate Deal for Academic Programs
The University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension Section
A. Richard Bonanno
Associate Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension
North Carolina State University
agInnovation
Glenda Humiston
Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of California Systemwide
International Agriculture Section
Sundararam Gunnsekaram
Director, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
University of Wisconsin – Madison
1890 Research
Vernon L. Jones
Associate Professor
Langston University
1890 Extension
Mark Latimore, Jr.
Extension Administrator and Assistant Vice President, Land-Grant Affairs
Fort Valley State University
1994 Institutions
John L. Phillips
Land-Grant Program Director
American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Patrese Atine
Director of Congressional and Federal Relations
American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Insular/Territorial Institutions
Lee S. Yudin
Dean and Director
University of Guam
APLU Non-Land-Grant Institutions
Tony L. Brannon
Dean, Huston School of Agriculture
Murray State University
Board on Human Sciences
Laura F. Stephenson
Assistant Dean, Family and Consumer Sciences
University of Tennessee
Section on Forestry Resources
W. Dale Greene
Dean, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
The University of Georgia
Board on Veterinary Medicine
Carolyn J. Henry
Dean and Professor of Oncology
University of Missouri-Columbia
CARET
Jake Tibbitts
Nevada
NON-VOTING MEMBERS
BAA Budget and Advocacy Committee Liaison
Paul M. Patterson
Dean, College of Agriculture, and Director, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Auburn University
BAA Policy Board of Directors Liaison
Mark Latimore, Jr.
Extension Administrator and Assistant Vice President, Land-Grant Affairs
Fort Valley State University
APLU Council on Governmental Affairs Liaison
John A. Latini
Director of Federal Relations
The Pennsylvania State University
NON-VOTING MEMBERS
Douglas L. Steele
Vice President, Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Eddie G. Gouge
Senior Director – Food and Agricultural Sciences and Executive Director, CARET and Board on Human Sciences
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Caroline E. (Crocoll) Henney
Executive Director, Extension and Outreach
Cooperative Extension/Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Wendy Fink
Director, Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources and Executive Director, Academic Programs Section
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Caron Gala
Director of Government Affairs, Agriculture and International Development
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
C. Randall Nuckolls (Forestry)
Washington Counsel
The University of Georgia
Alton Thompson
Regional Research Director
Association of 1890 Research Directors
Richard C. Rhodes, III
Executive Director
Northeastern Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
Albert E. Essel
Executive Director
Association of Extension Administrators
Jeff Jacobsen
Executive Director
North Central Regional Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
Gary A. Thompson
Executive Director
Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
Bret W. Hess
Executive Director
Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
Albert E. Essel
Executive Director
Association of 1890 Extension Directors
Ali Mitchell Dunigan
Executive Director
Northeast Extension Directors' Association
Robin A. Shepard
Executive Director
North Central Cooperative Extension Association
Ronald A. Brown
Executive Director
Association of Southern Region Extension Directors
Lyla Houglum
Executive Director
Western Extension Directors' Association
Eric Young
Executive Director
Southern Region Administrative Heads Section
Cornerstone Government Affairs
Hunt Shipman
Vice President
Cornerstone Government Affairs
Jim Richards
Vice President
Cornerstone Government Affairs
Vernie Hubert
Senior Consultant
Cornerstone Government Affairs
Will Todd
Principal
Cornerstone Government Affairs
Maggie Earle
Senior Associate
Cornerstone Government Affairs