President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 23 nominated conservative Texas attorney Brooke Rollins to be his administration’s secretary of agriculture.
Rollins, 52, was raised by a single mother in Glen Rose, a farming town of 1,200 about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, and has an undergraduate degree in agricultural development from Texas A&M University. She and her husband, Mark Rollins, and their four children are described as devout Texas A&M Aggie football fans, according to her biography.
Below are five things to know about Rollins, who will lead the 100,000-employee U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which spans 29 agencies, has a pending 125-page $213.3 billion budget, and is responsible for managing national forests, agricultural lending programs, food safety inspections, rural development, commodity trade policies, fighting wildfires, setting standards for school meals and nutrition programs that assist low-income people, pregnant women, and young children….