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Carl A. Clinefelter is the Inspector General. Before assuming this position in July 2005, he served as the Acting Director of the Office of Communications and Public Affairs and the Acting Director of the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs. Mr. Clinefelter also served as the Director of the Office of the Ombudsman at FCA and as Director of the Office of Secondary Market Oversight. Before assuming that position in December 1998, Mr. Clinefelter was an Assistant Director of the Office of Policy and Analysis, a regional supervisory officer in the Office of Supervision, and an Associate Regional Director in the Office of Examination and Supervision. Before joining FCA in 1980, he was employed by the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of New Orleans as assistant vice president.

S. Robert Coleman is Director of the Office of Secondary Market Oversight. Before assuming this position in September 2005, Mr. Coleman served as the Director of the Agency’s Regulation and Policy Division. Mr. Coleman joined FCA in 1986 as an examiner in the Office of Examination. He held various positions in that office, providing technical and analytical support to the FCA field offices and in the Policy Development and Planning Division. During this period, Mr. Coleman completed the commissioning program and became a commissioned examiner in 1990. In 1994, Mr. Coleman transferred to the Office of Policy Analysis, where he served as a policy analyst specializing in regulation development, and then as a senior policy analyst. He was named Director of the Regulation and Policy Division in June 2003.

William J. Hoffman is Chief Operating Officer. Before assuming this position in July 2008, Mr. Hoffman was Executive Assistant to Board Member and former Chairman and CEO Nancy C. Pellett. Prior to this, he served as the Associate Director for Examination and Supervision in the Office of Secondary Market Oversight, which oversees the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation. He began his career as a credit representative in the Louisville Farm Credit District. Mr. Hoffman first joined FCA in 1976 as a credit and operations officer and went on to work in various divisions of the Office of Supervision. In 1980 he became director of the Eastern Division, Office of Supervision, where he served for four years before being named Associate Deputy Governor for the Office of Examination and Supervision. In 1986 he joined the St. Louis Farm Credit Bank as vice president of risk assets. He later was the CEO of PennWest Farm Credit, ACA, which served western Pennsylvania. Before rejoining FCA in 2004, he was involved in agricultural finance in the private sector and several international projects.

Andrew D. Jacob, CFA, is Director of the Office of Regulatory Policy. Before being named to this position in July 2005, he served as the Director of the Office of Secondary Market Oversight, a position he assumed in 2004. Mr. Jacob joined the Agency in 1986 as a credit examiner in the Sacramento field office. In 1988, he transferred to FCA’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, where he served as a commissioned FCA examiner, as an information systems examiner, and as a capital markets specialist in the Office of Examination. In 1997, he transferred to the Office of Policy and Analysis, where he served as a senior policy analyst and a senior financial analyst before becoming the Assistant Director of the office in 1999. Mr. Jacob holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation, which the CFA Institute awarded him in 2000.

Wendy R. Laguarda is the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO). As DAEO, Ms. Laguarda administers the ethics program for FCA and the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation. This involves providing for the review of financial disclosure reports, creating and conducting ethics training programs, counseling Agency staff on ethics issues, and monitoring compliance with ethics rules. In addition to her responsibilities as DAEO, Ms. Laguarda serves as assistant general counsel in the Office of General Counsel and administers the Agency’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program. Before coming to FCA in 1990, Ms. Laguarda was an attorney advisor at the Office of Thrift Supervision and its predecessor Agency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. A graduate of Tufts University and George Washington University National Law Center, she is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars, as well as a mediator certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Mark McBeth is the Executive Assistant to Leland A. Strom, Chairman and CEO of FCA. His duties include advising the Chairman on policy, administrative, and management issues affecting FCA, the FCS, and the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation. Mr. McBeth began his career with the former Farm Credit Banks of Omaha where he was director of public relations from 1973 to 1980. In 1980 he joined FCA, and his experience includes serving as a commissioned examiner in the Enforcement Division. Other positions Mr. McBeth held within the Agency include Assistant Director of the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs and, more recently, Executive Assistant to FCA Board Member Douglas L. Flory. Mr. McBeth also served as Executive Assistant to Leland Strom prior to Mr. Strom's appointment as Chairman and CEO.

B. Jeffrey McGiboney assumed the position of Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator as a collateral duty on November 20, 2006. In this capacity, Mr. McGiboney administers and coordinates the activities and functions of the Agency’s program of nondiscrimination and affirmative action. His primary position is that of a senior operating accountant in the Office of Management Services. Mr. McGiboney joined the Agency in June 1986 as an examiner in FCA’s Louisville field office. He became a commissioned examiner in September 1990 and worked in the FCA Atlanta and McLean field offices. In June 1999, he became the senior operating accountant for FCA.

Thomas G. McKenzie is Chief Examiner and Director of the Office of Examination. Before his current position, he served as Director of the Office of Secondary Market Oversight and as Director of the Office of Policy and Analysis; he has also held Regional and Division Director positions in the Office of Examination and the former Office of Supervision. As a Regional Director he oversaw field office operations in Albany, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Sacramento. Before joining FCA in 1979, he was a regional manager for a Federal Land Bank; a manager and CEO of a Federal Land Bank Association; and a financial analyst for a Bank for Cooperatives, where he began his career in agricultural credit in 1971.

Charles R. Rawls is the FCA General Counsel. Before joining FCA in March 2003, he was general counsel and vice president for legal, tax, and accounting at the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. During the consideration of the 2002 farm bill, he served as the General Counsel of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. From 1998 to 2001, he was General Counsel for the USDA, and from 1993 to 1998 he was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. From 1988 to 1993, he was Legislative Director and then Administrative Assistant to Congressman Martin Lancaster. From 1985 to 1988, he was Associate General Counsel of the House Committee on Agriculture. He was Counsel to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy from 1983 to 1985.

Martha Schober is Director of the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs. Before joining FCA, she served as a congressional liaison in the Office of Congressional Relations at the USDA. She also served as a confidential assistant to the administrator at USDA’s Risk Management Agency. Before entering Government service, Ms. Schober was the director of congressional relations at the American Cotton Shippers Association.

Roland E. Smith became Secretary to the FCA Board in January 2006. He began his career with the FCS in 1974, when he became a loan officer for a System association in Greenville, North Carolina. He later served as a loan officer and credit reviewer for the Farm Credit Banks of Columbia, South Carolina. In 1979, Mr. Smith joined FCA as an examiner in the St. Louis field office. In 1984, he was promoted to Associate Regional Director. He later managed FCA’s Oklahoma City field office and then the Denver field office. In 1996, Mr. Smith was named Chief Examiner and Director of the Office of Examination. He served as the Agency’s Executive Director of Planning and Projects from August 2004 until January 2006.

Stephen G. Smith is the Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Office of Management Services. Before accepting this position, he served as the Agency’s Inspector General. He joined FCA in 1981 as a technical specialist, became an examiner in 1984, and later served as staff assistant for the Chief Examiner. In 1989, he was named Associate Regional Director for the Agency’s New York field office and then served as Senior Staff Director for the Chief Examiner before being named Director of the Technical and Operations Division. In 1993, he assumed new responsibilities as Director of the Information Resources Division. He was named Chief Information Officer in 1996, directing all technology and information operations for FCA. Before joining the Agency, he worked at the North Central Jersey Farm Credit Associations.