Roger J. Klurfeld
Director USDA National Appeals Division

Roger J. Klurfeld was appointed Director of the National Appeals Division in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in June 2002. The Division is responsible for all administrative appeals arising from program decisions of the Farm Service Agency, Risk Management Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Rural Business-Cooperative Development Service, Rural Housing Service, and the Rural Utilities Service. As Director, Mr. Klurfeld supervises a national office staff located in Alexandria, Virginia; three three regional offices located in Indianapolis, Memphis, and Denver; as well as 70 hearing officers located throughout the United States.

Prior to being named Director of the National Appeals Division, Mr. Klurfeld was the Assistant Director for Legal Analysis, Office of Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC. As Assistant Director, Mr. Klurfeld had general supervisory responsibility over the DOE’s program to refund billions of dollars obtained from overcharges by oil companies during the 1970’s federal price control program, including consideration of requests by State governments to use oil overcharge moneys for indirect restitution. Mr. Klurfeld’s staff also processed requests for waivers from DOE regulations and appeals from orders issued by other parts of the DOE, including energy efficiency programs, the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts, and Payments Equivalent to Taxes. In addition, Mr. Klurfeld also served as a Hearing Officer in cases involving personnel security clearance revocations and the DOE Contractor Employee Protection (whistleblower) Program.

Mr. Klurfeld is also a founder and President of Nutrition News Focus, publisher of a web site and newsletter providing analysis and comment on nutrition stories in the media.

Mr. Klurfeld attended the College of Law, Florida State University, where he served as Articles Editor of the law review and earned a J.D. degree with high honors. He also holds an M.B.A. degree from the College of Business, Florida State University, and a B.A. degree in public policy from New College in Sarasota, Florida.

Mr. Klurfeld is the author of a number of legal articles. He has been awarded postgraduate fellowships to study economics by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Law and Economics of the University of Miami. He has lectured on energy law for Executive Enterprises, Inc., as well as spoken on energy law issues at national and regional meetings.

He is a member of the District of Columbia and State of Florida Bars, as well as the bars of a number of federal courts.

M. Terry Johnson
Deputy Director USDA National Appeals Division

Ms. Johnson has spent her entire professional career in the field of administrative hearings and appeals. She came to the National Appeals Division in November 2002 from the Department of Health and Human Services, where she had served as a member of that agency’s five-member Departmental Appeals Board since her appointment by Secretary Louis Sullivan in 1992. In addition to holding hearings and deciding appeals, her duties included providing mediation services and giving lectures on the appeals process to both agency and customer groups. Prior to that, Terry was the Board’s Supervising Attorney for six years.

Ms. Johnson began her government service at the Department of Energy’s Office of Hearings and Appeals. She served there as a staff attorney, Deputy Assistant Director, then Assistant Director.

Ms. Johnson's B.A. degree in political science is from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she also attended high school. She received a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.