Hubert Hamer

Hubert Hamer
Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
Assumed office
April 2016
President
Preceded byJoseph T. Reilly
Personal details
Alma materTennessee State University (BA)

Hubert Hamer is the top official of the U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the agency that produces most official U.S. government statistics on agriculture and food.

Hamer has been at NASS since the 1990s and was made Administrator in 2016. He had worked in several field offices, then became an administrator of field offices, then became director of NASS's Statistics Division and chair of the USDA's Agricultural Statistics Board.[1][2] He is NASS's first African-American administrator.[3]

  1. ^ Hubert Hamer: NASS Administrator at official NASS site
  2. ^ "Hubert Hamer". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
  3. ^ Stacy M. Brown. USDA prods farmers to participate in agriculture census. Washington Informer. Dec 14–20, 2017.