Monsanto Position |
Name |
Federal Government Position |
Head of Government Affairs for Genetech, (Now Monsanto) |
David Beier |
Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Gore |
Worked for Monsanto's Legal Team |
William Conlon |
Department of Justice |
Worked for Monsanto's Legal Team |
Sam Skinner |
Department of Justice |
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer |
Robert Fraley |
Serves as advisor in pubic agencies, including the USDA, among others |
Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs at G.D. Searle & Co (Merged with Monsanto) |
Michael A. Friedman |
Acting Commissioner of the FDA |
Director of International Government Affairs |
Marcia Hale |
Asst. to Pres. Clinton and Director of Governmental Affairs |
Consultant to Searle's (Merged with Monsanto) Public Relations Firm |
Arthur Hull Hayes |
Previously was FDA Commissioner |
Director of ESH Quality & Compliance |
John L. Henshaw |
Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Labor |
Vice President of Product and Technology Cooperation |
Rob Horsch |
Advisor to the National Science Foundation and the Dept. of Energy |
Board of Directors, also represented Monsanto as a lawyer |
Michael Kantor |
U.S. Secretary of Commerce |
Monsanto Board Member |
Gwendolyn S. King |
Commissioner of SSA 1989-1992 |
CEO of Monsanto for 14 years |
Richard J. Mahoney |
Served as Director of U.S. Soviet, Japanese and Korean Trade Councils, a Member of the U.S. Government Trade Policy Committee |
Oversaw the Approval of rBGH, was a top Monsanto scientist |
Margaret Miller |
In 1991, Margaret was appointed Deputy Director of the FDA |
Sits on Monsanto's Board of Directors, previously a Monsanto Animal Specialist |
George Poste |
In 2002, Poste was appointed head of Bioterrorism division of Homeland Security |
Member of the Monsanto Board of Directors |
William D. Ruckelshaus |
In 1970, he was the first Chief Administrator for the EPA, later the acting director of the FBI, then Deputy U.S. Attorney General |
Previous CEO of Searle (Merged with Monsanto), he successfully had aspartame legalized while in that position. |
Donald Rumsfeld |
Appointed to Secretary of Defense in 1975, then appointed to the same position again in 2000 |
Worked on Monsanto-funded rBGH in connection with her graduate work at Cornell University |
Suzanne Sechen |
FDA Reviewer on Scientific Data |
Previously the President and COO of Monsanto, Chairman and CEO of Nutrasweet, and Chairman and CEO of Monsanto |
Robert B. Shapiro |
Previously served on President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and on the White House Domestic Policy Review of Industrial Innovation |
Former Vice President of CropLife America, which represented Monsanto |
Islam Siddiqui |
Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative |
Former Attorney for Monsanto for seven years, previous head of the Monsanto Washington, D.C. office |
Michael Taylor |
Former FDA Deputy Commission for Policy. In 2010, appointed by the FDA as a senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner. |
Previous Monsanto Researcher in charge of the Manhattan Project, creating the atomic bomb. Later became Monsanto's Chairman of the Board. |
Dr. Charles Thomas |
Previously served as a consultant to the National Security Council and as a U.S. Representative to the United Nations' Atomic Energy Commission |
Former lawyer for Monsanto, a notorious chemical polluter. |
Clarence Thomas |
In 1991, was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court |
Previously served on the Board of Directors of Calgene, a Monsanto Biotech subsidiary. |
Anne Veneman |
In 2001, was appointed head of the USDA |
Former Staff Lawyer with Monsanto in Washington, D.C. |
Jack Watson |
Chief of Staff to Pres. Jimmy Carter |
Hired by Monsanto to prosecute two farmers who fought against Monsanto's seed policies in 2002 |
Seth Waxman |
Former U.S. Solicitor General |
Retired Senior Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto |
Dr. Virginia Weldon |
Previously, was a member of the FDA's Metabolism & Endocrine Advisory Committee |
Former Chief Counsel at Monsanto |
Rufus Yerxa |
In 1993, was nominated as U.S. Deputy to the World Trade Organization |
Monsanto Consultant |
Toby Moffett |
U.S. Congressman (Democrat) |
Monsanto Legal Counsel |
Dennis DeConcini |
U.S. Senator (Democrat) |
Director, International Government Affairs |
Josh King |
White House Communications (Clinton) |
Monsanto Lobbyist |
Carol Tucker-Foreman |
White House-appointed Consumer Adv. (Clinton) |
Vice President, Government & Public Affairs |
Linda Fisher |
Deputy Admin EPA (Clinton, Bush) |
Manager, New Technologies |
Lidia Watrud |
USDA, EPA (Clinton, Bush, Obama) |
Rose Law Firm, Monsanto Counsel |
Hillary Clinton |
U.S. Sen (D), Sec of State (Obama) |
Director, Monsanto Danforth Center |
Roger Beachy |
Dir, USDA NIFA (Obama) |