Long-serving public policy
specialist Mary Kay Thatcher will retire from the American Farm Bureau
Federation at the end of the month. In an email to AFBF staff, Dale Moore, the
organization’s executive director for public policy, said: “It is tough to
inform you that Mary Kay Thatcher has announced her retirement from AFBF,”
according to the Hagstrom Report. Her last day with AFBF will be January 31st.
Thatcher, born in Iowa, joined AFBF in 1982, covering a number of different
policy areas for the organization. In the email, Moore stated Thatcher is “recognized
as one the of the top agricultural advocates in Washington, echoed by the news
media which has voted her one of DC’s top lobbyists 11 years in a row.” There
was no announcement on her plans for the future.
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