2023 COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND POLICY

VOTING MEMBERS

Chair
Marshall Stewart
Vice Chancellor of Extension and Engagement
University of Missouri

Academic Program Section
Josef M. Broder
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
University of Georgia

Cooperative Extension Section
A. Richard Bonanno
Associate Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension
North Carolina State University

Experiment Station Section
Anton Bekkerman
Associate Dean, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture
University of New Hampshire

International Agriculture Section
Tom Gill
Director, Smith Center for International Sustainable Agriculture
University of Tennessee

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
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
Jo Britt-Rankin
Associate Director/Program Director
University of Missouri Extension

Section on Forestry Resources
Pending

Board on Veterinary Medicine
Carolyn J. Henry
Dean and Professor of Oncology
University of Missouri-Columbia

Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching
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
Adam Ward
Director, Government Affairs, College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences
The Ohio State University

1994 Institutions
John L. Phillips
Land-Grant Program Director
American Indian Higher Education Consortium

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS

Douglas L. Steele
Vice President, Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Suzette Robinson
Senior Executive Assistant, Vice President, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR)
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Wendy Fink
Executive Director, Academic Programs Section (APS)
Assistant Vice President, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR)
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Caron Gala
Director of Government Affairs, Agriculture and International Development
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Flannery Bethel
Senior Associate, Office of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
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

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

Doreen Hauser-Lindstrom
Executive Director
Western Extension Directors’ Association

Eric Young
Executive Director
Southern Region Administrative Heads Section

Bridget Krieger
Principal
Lewis-Burke Associates

Elizabeth Stulberg
Principal
Lewis-Burke Associates

Sierra Cato
Principal
Lewis-Burke Associates

Christina Laridaen
Associate
Lewis-Burke Associates