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JANIE SIMMS HIPP, J.D., LL.M. (Agricultural Law)

Washington DC, 20024 and Fayetteville, AR 72701

479-***-**** hm & mobile; 202-***-**** office

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Education:

University of Oklahoma, B.A. Social Work

Oklahoma City University, J.D.

University of Arkansas Fayetteville, LL.M. in Agricultural Law

Positions & Experiences

Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Tribal Affairs; Director Office of Tribal Relations in the

Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Secretary Thomas J.

Vilsack, Washington DC

USDA RMA Director, Risk Management Education Division, Washington DC

CSREES National Program Leader, Risk Management Education, Farm Financial

Management, Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program & Trade

Adjustment Assistance, Washington DC

University of Arkansas Fayetteville Division of Agriculture & College of Agriculture,

College of Engineering & Honors College, Assistant Professor & Agricultural Law and

Policy Specialist

National Center for Agricultural Law, Interim Director, Associate Director & Staff

Attorney, College of Law, University of Arkansas Fayetteville

Agricultural Law & Policy Consultant

Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, Associate Director & Special Counsel to

the Executive Director

Office of the Attorney General, State of Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General

Private Commercial Law Practice, State of Oklahoma

Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Assistant Director

of Planning and Director of Affirmative Action

Appointee, Secretary s Advisory Committee for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

Frequent Presenter, Author & Policy Analyst

Agricultural Law & Policy

Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability Law and Policy, Food Policy

Water Law & Natural Resources Law

Native Food & Agriculture

Gender & Agriculture

New Generation and Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

Legal Issues Facing Agricultural Producers

Labor Issues

Family and Farm Family Financial Challenges & Risk Management

New Markets & Market Development

Rural Development

International Experience & Judicial Experience (ALJ)

Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation

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Detailed Resume

Citizen of Chickasaw Nation

Education

Undergraduate Hours, 1973-1975, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,

Oklahoma, (major: Sociology and English)

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Social Work, 1975-1978, University of Oklahoma,

Norman, Oklahoma

Juris Doctor (J.D.), 1981-1984, Oklahoma City University School of Law,

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Agricultural Law, 1993 (coursework completed)-

1996 (degree awarded post thesis), University of Arkansas School of Law,

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Current Position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Tribal Affairs

Director of Office of Tribal Relations in the Office of the Secretary

Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack, United States Department of Agriculture

Responsible for senior policy advisory role to the Secretary of Agriculture on all

matters relating to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Tribal

sovereignty and trust issues

Responsible for management of the Office of Tribal Relations

Work across all seventeen (17) agencies and 39 offices of the United States

Department of Agriculture in policy advisory capacity

Point of Contact on Tribal Relations and Tribal Consultation for USDA

Point of Contact for the White House and Office of Management and Budget on

USDA Tribal Consultation

Immediate Past Position: Director, Risk Management Education Division

Risk Management Education Division Director, United States Department of Agriculture

Risk Management Agency (RMA), Washington, DC. (July 2009-present).

Responsible for national leadership of Risk Management Education program for the

Risk Management Agency; RMA is the administrative agency working with the

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and its board to address the crop insurance and

general risk management education needs of the nation s farmers and ranchers

Work with 10 regional offices in coordination substantial involvement with all

funded projects of the RME Division

Work across all Insurance Services Division to incorporate training and education

needs into the mission of the agency

Oversight of team of Grants and Agreement Specialists working directly with all

awardees of the agency in assuring financial management and program management

goals are met.

National Program Leader

Risk Management Education, Farm Financial Management, Trade Adjustment Assistance

and Beginning Farmer and Rancher, United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative

State Research, Education and Extension Service, Washington, DC.(April 1, 2007-present).

Responsible for national co-leadership $18M beginning farmer and rancher

development program providing outreach, education, training and technical

assistance through competitive grant programs

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Responsible for national leadership of $5M risk management education program

administered through four regional risk education centers and one digital center

Responsible for $10M (of a total $90M overall annual budget) for training and

technical assistance program for farmers and fishermen adjusting to increasing

imports

Responsible for national leadership of farm financial management specialists

(approximately $10M special grants and federal formula funds)

Liaison to National Extension Farm Income Tax Committee; remaining outside

committee advising IRS regarding taxation issues relating to agricultural production,

resulting in IRS special publication 225

Co-coordinator national Community of Practice for agricultural lawyers for

eXtension; creator of USDA agricultural law seminar series

Oversight to Native American Farm Tax Guide project; competitively awarded

project designed to provide educational tools for Native American producers deriving

taxable income from the land

Liaison with all national education, research and extension programs relating to all

designated leadership content areas and federal agencies (RMA, US Forest Service,

Foreign Ag Service, Farm Service Agency, NRCS, EPA, ERS and others), private

and community based partners

Co-leadership for national effort linking farm management and farm family financial

security curriculum to aid farm families in improving financial security; including

focus on estate planning and farm succession

Chair, USDA Women and Working Lands working group (across USDA and

interested agencies) focused on providing coordination and cooperation in services

provided to growing demographic of women principal farm and ranch operators

Leader, national initiative to improve educational programs focusing on estate

planning and farm succession within the agricultural community

Leader, international educational team, Air Pollution Regulation: Improving

Compliance Through Incentive and Education, presented through the Middle East

Peace Process, Istanbul, Turkey; participants included Core Parties of Israel,

Palestine and Jordan (funded by U.S. State Department through Foreign Agricultural

Service)

Participant, U.S. Diary Sustainability Summit, carbon market working group, Rogers,

AR 2008

Member, Ecosystems Services Working Group, Science for Sustainability Working

Group, Diversity Working Group, VisionPlus team within USDA CSREES; liaison

to Director, USDA Office of Sustainable Development

Additional information available upon request.

Professional Experience Legal

Agricultural Law & Natural Resources Public Policy Specialist, Division of Agriculture

Cooperative Extension Service, State of Arkansas and Assistant Professor of Agricultural Law,

Department of Agricultural Economics and AgriBusiness, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural,

Food and Life Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas(2000-2007).

Responsible for development of statewide, regional and national public policy

educational programs relevant to legal, policy and regulatory concerns of

agricultural, natural resource and rural community audiences

o Co-convener: Arkansas Women in Agriculture

o Co-Founder: Arkansas Women in Agriculture (non-profit)

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o Co-Founder: Native Women and Youth in Agriculture intertribal

organization (national non-profit)

o Convener of multi-agency annual educational program: Arkansas Water:

New Challenges New Solutions

o Co-creator and educator, Public Issues Education Center University of

Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service;

example of curriculum includes water law (water quality and water

availability) and public education regarding pending state questions

Teaching responsibilities, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, included:

o Agricultural Law, College of Agriculture

o Environmental Law, College of Agriculture

o Environmental Justice, Engineering College and Honors College

o Prior teaching responsibilities on UofA Fayetteville campus included

Administrative Law, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences,

Department of Political Science

Graduate Agricultural Research Seminar, UofA Fayetteville

School of Law

o Adjunct Professor, University of Arkansas Little Rock, William H.

Bowen School of Law

Emerging Issues in Food & Ag Law

National Policy Advisor concerning agriculture law and policy, sustainability

and related issues: labor, food safety, contract food production, ag marketing,

environmental and natural resource allocation and use, land use, water law,

animal health and welfare, animal identification, local food systems development

and emerging agricultural legal issues

o Science for Sustainability (CSREES/SARE/Winrock International)

o Making Changes: Turning Local Visions into National Solutions

(Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy of Winrock

International/Kellogg Foundation)

o The Future of Animal Agriculture in North America (Farm Foundation);

membership on environmental policy working group for the project

o The 2007 Farm Bill: U.S. Producer Preferences for Agricultural, Food

and Public Policy (Farm Foundation); authorship of four policy

proposals for 2007 Farm Bill discussions

o National Public Policy Issues Education, Farm Foundation

o Full listing available on request.

Grant Administration responsibilities (of $1M+):

o Co-Principal Investigator addressing Native Women in

Agriculture/Small Business, risk management, business management

and land tenure issues; USDA CSREES

o Co-Principal Investigator on two projects addressing risk management

issues of Native American agricultural producers; USDA RMA

o Co-Principal Investigator addressing public policy/trade issues relating to

improving connection between local Virgin Islands agricultural

producers & tourism industry; USDA SARE

o Cooperator on numerous grants addressing legal/risk and financial needs

of aging agricultural producers, including American Indian producers;

USDA and DHHS

o Co-project director, Truth or Consequences: The Future of Contracts in

Agriculture; project funded by Farm Foundation, Arkansas and

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American Farm Bureau and National Association of State Departments

of Agriculture (2003-2004)

o National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information, USDA

NAL

o Full listing available on request.

Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers, Advisory to USDA Secretary

Johanns & Schafer (two year appointment 2005-2007; reappointed 2007-2009.

Agricultural and Natural Resources Law and Policy Consultant (1999-2007)

Policy, legal research and situation analysis addressing agricultural policy issues;

including sustainable agriculture, rural development, cooperative development,

food security, food safety, animal disease, human nutrition, and the

interrelationships between agriculture, the consumer and the environment

Clients include: Winrock International, Little Rock, AR & Arlington, VA; the

Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy at Winrock

International, Arlington, VA; Intertribal Agriculture Council, Indian Land Tenure

Foundation, the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Poteau, Oklahoma; the

Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; the Foundation for Organic Resource

Management, Fayetteville, Arkansas; the Legal Research Network, Los Angeles,

California; the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department

of Agriculture, EEmanage, Inc., Tyson Foods, and others. Full listing available

on request.

Publications analyzing agricultural law issues, including food safety, farmland

preservation, environmental implications of agricultural practices, sustainable

agriculture, and marketing of agricultural products. Full listing available on

request.

Grant application and coordination of funded projects in agricultural law and

policy-related areas. Full listing available on request

Former Advisor to Native American agricultural cooperative with members from

five western Oklahoma Tribes.

Frequent speaker on full range of agricultural legal issues, including legal issues

relating to American Indian agricultural production and sustainable agriculture

production. Full listing available on request.

Interim Director, Associate Director & Staff Attorney, National Center for Agricultural Law

Research and Information (NCALRI, now known as the National Agricultural Law Center) and

Assistant Research Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville,

Arkansas, (1992 1999)

Responsible for administration of National center and all aspects of the Center s

work; comprehensive legal publications in all areas of agricultural law, with

heavy emphasis on environmental issues involved in agricultural production,

private and public land use, international trade, sustainable agriculture and rural

development issues. Full listing of publication titles available on request (over

100 titles).

Frequent national presenter on myriad of agricultural law topics for lawyers and

agricultural producer community. Full listing of presentations available on

request.

Primary responsibility (including authorship and editorial capacity) for numerous

state survey projects involving review of environmental, land use, farmland

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preservation, animal health, food safety, and poultry production laws in the

United States. Completed two fifty-state projects and two multi-state projects of

this type. Full listing of publication titles available on request.

Teaching responsibilities: Administrative Law, Department of Political Science

and Graduate Research Seminar in Agricultural Law, School of Law

Video production grant concerning nuisance, right-to-farm law and other related

environmental /agricultural concerns funded through Southern Region SARE

Supervised staff of attorneys and numerous annually appointed graduate fellows.

International Experiences

Lead Instructor, USDA and EPA joint program within the Mideast Peace Process

effort; sponsored through Foreign Agriculture Service and U.S. State

Department, Air Pollution Regulation: Improving Compliance Through

Incentives and Education; Core Parties are Israel, Palestine, and Jordan,

workshop held Istanbul, Turkey August 2008.

Peoples Republic of China; Organic Food Mission examining emerging organic

sector; visiting Bejing, Jinan, Weifang, Quingdao, and Shanghai; August 2003.

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service through Research and Scientific Exchange

Program US/PRC.

Slovakia; Advisor to the Slovak Ministry of Agriculture, Bratislava, Slovakia,

January-February, 1997; U.S. Agency for International Development; involved

examination and advisory services concerning agricultural law and farm policy

Slovakia

Educational exchange participant with agricultural specialists from the former

Soviet Union and Ukraine; coordination of educational experiences of

participants from Russia-Ukraine and served on exchange visit to Moscow; 1995

1997

Lecturer on a variety of agricultural and policy related issues, various agricultural

and technical schools in rural northern Chile, 1995-1998.

Consultant, Center for International Trade Development, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,

Oklahoma (1992 - 1993)

Research and advisory services examining potential for economic and

employment growth from an enhanced value-added agricultural sector within the

state of Oklahoma

Plan for statewide enhancement of trade development services to state

employers.

Associate Director and Special Counsel to the Executive Director, Oklahoma Employment

Security Commission, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1991 1993)

Responsible for management of one-third of the state s 77 county employment

offices

Special advisor and Special Counsel to the Executive Team

Supervisor, Division of Hearings and Appeals

Official liaison to the Oklahoma Legislature

Chair, Committee to Examine the Use of Independent Contractors within the

state of Oklahoma, (1991 1992), committee appointed by the Chair, Oklahoma

Employment Security Commission and the Office of the Governor

Supervision of the job training, labor market analysis, veteran services and

employment services divisions.

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Assistant Attorney General, State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1987 1991)

Staff liaison to the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG)

Agriculture and Rural Legal Affairs Committee

Prepared and presented testimony concerning the farm credit crisis before the

United States Senate Agriculture Committee

Drafted agricultural legislation and advised the Oklahoma Legislature on

agricultural issues

Served as General Counsel to 11 agencies of state government, including the

Department of Agriculture; the Health Planning Commission; the Department of

Health; the Veterinary Medical Board; the Engineers and Land Surveyors Board;

the Board of Regents for Higher Education, the Board of Public Accountancy

and others

Served as state expert on administrative rulemaking and agency hearing process

Prepared training materials and conducted training sessions on administrative

rulemaking for lawyers and non-lawyers.

Private Law Practice, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1984 1987)

Practice focused primarily on commercial, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure

litigation, securities litigation, complex business litigation and education law

Practice with Oklahoma firms of McKinney, Stringer & Webster and Jerry

Steward and Associates.

Professional Memberships, Honors & Activities

Women in Blue Jeans Spirit and Inspiration Award, SD, January 2009

Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Administrative

Council Grant Review Committee, 1997-2000;Vice-Chair, 2000-2001; Chair,

2001-2002; Member, National Operations Committee, SARE Program; 2002

National Sustainable Agriculture Meeting Planning Committee

Steering Committee, Women in Sustainable Agriculture Conference 2005,

Burlington, VT

Board memberships:

Board of Trustees, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Poteau,

Oklahoma;

American Indian Center of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas;

Board Associate, Foundation for Organic Resource Management,

Fayetteville, Arkansas;

Member, Local Workforce Investment Board of Northwest Arkansas.

Former Board membership,

Arkansas Women in Agriculture and Native Women and Youth in

Agriculture.

Member, State Bar of Oklahoma, admitted 1985, OBA #11165

Oklahoma Association of Women Lawyers; President-Elect (1985), President

(1986), Board of Directors (1987 1992)

Oklahoma Bar Association Committees and Sections: Mental Health Committee,

Farm Crisis Task Force, Agricultural Law Section and Indian Law Section

Admitted to Practice before the United States District Court for the Western,

Eastern, and Northern Districts of Oklahoma and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Member, American Bar Association and Oklahoma Bar Association

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Dispute Resolution Section

Environmental Law Section

Member, American Agricultural Law Association

Editorial Board for Agricultural Law Update publication

Professional Experience, Non-Legal

Assistant Director of Planning, 1980 1982

o Leadership for statewide planning for all mental health, substance abuse

services

Affirmative Action Officer, 1978 1980, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health

and Substance Abuse Services

o Leadership for grievance and affirmative action process; statewide

employee relations training; liaison to U.S. Department of Labor and

EEOC

Selected Publications & Selected Presentations (full listing available on request)

Oklahoma Administrative Rulemaking: The 1987 Revisions (1988)

Copeland, Hipp, et al., Environmental Laws Impacting Livestock Producers,

NCALRI (publication series releasing 50 separate titles)

Environmental Laws Affecting Agricultural Operations, (1997). 50 state series

examined law and regulations concerning water & air quality, wetlands,

pesticide, safe drinking water, coastal zone management, hazardous waste and

toxic substances, endangered species, and emergency planning and community

notification laws.

Food Safety Laws and Regulations, Project Coordinator & Editor (1999). 50

state series examined federal and state food safety laws

A Practical Guide to Food Safety Regulation (working title) publication in

process, 2007.

Sustaining the Family Farm: Old and New Tools for Survival in a World of

Contracts and Corporations (1996).

Food Assistance, Nutrition Programs, and the USDA, West s Federal Practice

Manual, (1997).

Frequent Speaker on a variety of topics:

o Sustainable agriculture policy

o Beginning farmers and ranchers

o Farmers comprehensive personal liability & crop insurance

o Environmental laws impacting agricultural producers

o Food safety

o Landowner liabilities

o Entrepreneurship & rural development

o Marketing and cooperative development

o Corporate farming trends

o Indigenous rights to land and water & Native agriculture

o Aquaculture legal issues & Equine legal issues

o Nuisance, right to farm, and farmland preservation

o Animal Health, animal identification & COOL issues

o Women and agriculture

o Conflict resolution

Carbon Market Creation & Regulation, Presenter, American Agricultural Law

Association, October 2008

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Native Women in Leadership, Keynote; National Area Health Education Centers,

Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 2005.

Lessons Learned on the Road to Sustainability: World Aquaculture Society;

Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2004.

Clean Water Act Update, National Poultry Waste Management Symposium,

Memphis, Tennessee, November 2004.

Native Women in Agriculture. Intertribal Agriculture Council Annual Meeting,

Hollywood, Florida, November 2004.

Resolving Natural Resources Conflicts in Multi-State, Multi-Jurisdictional

Contexts, Arkansas Water 2004: Challenges Ahead, Little Rock, Arkansas,

November, 2004.

Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Avenues to Natural Resources Challenges,

Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Jefferson City, Missouri, February

2004.

20 Year Legal Retrospective on Issues Relating to Animal Agriculture, Southern

Agricultural Scientists Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 2004.

Update on Obesity and Food Labeling Policy, Southern Agricultural Scientists

Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 2004

Overview of Recent Food Safety Policies With Attention to COOL and the

Proposed Animal Identification Plan, American Agricultural Law Association

Educational Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 2003

Presenter, Indigenous People and Rights to Water: A Case Comparison of Chile

and the United States, 1997 International Symposium on the Human Dimensions

of Natural Resources Management in the Americas, Belize City, Belize,

February, 1997

Nuisances in the Community, video and written materials relating to nuisance,

environment, right-to-farm, and role of mediation, USDA SARE/ACE, Southern

Region

Rural and Urban Interface, FARM Forum, Dayton, Ohio; March 1997

Full listing available on request.

Judicial Experience

Employee Appeals Board Hearing Officer, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah,

Oklahoma; 1996-2004

Director, Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, Office of Hearings and

Appeals; 1991-1992

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