Brooke Rollins is President Trump's pick to lead USDA. She is 52 years old, grew up on a Texas farm, graduated with honors from Texas A&M with a B.S. in Agriculture Development. She was the first woman to be elected A&M student body president and served as the speaker pro tempore of the A&M Student Senate, the chair of the Texas A&M Judicial Court, as a Fish Camp counselor, and was Cotton Bowl Classic Queen. In 2007, Rollins became the first female speaker at the College Station Aggie Muster, which honors deceased Texas A&M former students. Rollins earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law, graduating with honors.
Roger has worked and socialized with a dozen or so Texas A&M graduates over the years and knows they are uniformly different, in a good way, than graduates from all other universities.
Rollins worked private law practice for several years in Dallas, clerked for a Federal District judge, served as deputy general counsel, ethics advisor, and policy director to Texas governor Rick Perry. She was the CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an Austin-based conservative think tank, from 2003 through 2018. In 2011, she was named one of the 25 most powerful Texans.