Jake Hamlin has been named director of state government affairs for CHS Inc. He will join CHS on June 2, and will be based at the company’s Inver Grove Heights, Minn., headquarters.
Hamlin comes to CHS from Cargill, where he served as director, state government relations, since 2010, and also spent five years as a government affairs associate. Previously, he served as a committee administrator for the Minnesota House of Representatives, policy assistant for the legislative affairs director, and forestry division planner for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He earned an MA in Public Administration from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., and a BA in political science from St Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.