President-elect Donald Trump named Texas attorney Brooke Rollins as his nominee for Secretary of Agriculture on November 23.
Rollins, 52, is president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a conservative non-profit think tank. She served as acting director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council at the end of Trump’s first term as president.
Although Rollins does not have much professional history in the agriculture sector, she graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in agricultural development and grew up on a farm.
“From her upbringing in the small and Agriculture-centered town of Glen Rose, Texas, to her years of leadership involvement with Future Farmers of America and 4H, to her generational Family Farming background, to guiding her four kids in their show cattle careers, Brooke has a practitioner’s experience, along with deep Policy credentials in both Nonprofit and Government leadership at the State and National levels,” Trump said in a statement.
Rollins also service as deputy general counsel for Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Like all cabinet positions, she will have to be confirmed by the Senate in order to become secretary of the agency, which has a $437 billion budget this year.
