Items Tagged with 'Ken Barbic'

Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Meghan Hertel as the new director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, a move aimed at steering the agency through ongoing conservation challenges. Church Brothers Farms hired Omar Bobadilla as chief strategy and operations officer. Kahn, Soares & Conway, LLP hired Alex Dominguez, an attorney specializing in public agency and water law. Sarah Alvernaz, general manager of California Sweet Potato Growers, was elected as the U.S. Sweet Potato Council’s new president.

OFW Law hired two USDA alums: Jeff Canavan as senior policy adviser and Jamie Woodside as associate attorney. Invariant has promoted Ken Barbic to chair the firm's food and agriculture practice. 

The Trump administration is getting off to a much faster start in putting its team into place at USDA than was the case eight years ago, and that means the department is better positioned to deal with issues such as the fallout of a trade war, according to veterans of President Donald Trump’s first term.