The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has named Joseph L. Parsons as its new Administrator as of June 16, following the retirement in March of previous Administrator Hubert Hamer.
Parsons has been with NASS for more than 37 years, previously serving as Acting Administrator and before that as Associate Administrator. He also served as chair of USDA’s Agricultural Statistics Board and director of NASS’s Methodology Division.
Joseph J. Prusacki, a NASS employee since 1984 and former director of NASS’s National Operations Division in St. Louis, Mo., will remain as NASS’s acting Associate Administrator until the position is filled later this year.