Sandra G. Wood

Acting Deputy Administrator for Commodity Operations
Assistant Deputy Administrator, Commodity Operations
Farm Service Agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sandra Wood is the Assistant Deputy Administrator and acting Deputy Administrator for Commodity Operations.  In this position, Wood provides policy and operational guidance to the Commodity Operations Division in Washington, D.C. and the Kansas City Commodity Office.

In 2006, Wood became a Branch Chief in the Commodity Operations Division, the organization that she has broad responsibility for now and which began her career in international food aid. She became the Assistant Deputy Administrator for Commodity Operations in 2008, assuming in January 2009 the Acting Deputy Administrator position for which she held in interim for six months.

Wood began her Federal government career at the Farm Service Agency (FSA) in the Virginia FSA County Operations Trainee Program and progressed into other positions, including; County Executive Director and then District Director with oversight for eighteen counties. During this tenure, she was also an Equal Opportunity, Civil Rights and Sexual Harassment facilitator providing training across the state and nationally; a Virginia State Civil Rights Coordinator; she obtained Farm Loan approval authority, and was a National Advanced Facilitator for District Directors, facilitating training and development for District Directors across the country.

Wood attended Saint Paul’s College receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, concentrating in the field of Management. She is also a 2000 graduate of the Graduate School’s Executive Leadership Program.

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