Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
Most recently, J.B. Penn was the Senior Vice President of Sparks Companies, Inc. and was previously the President and co-founder of Economic Perspectives, an independent consulting company. He served in a variety of positions at the Department of Agriculture from 1967 to 1981, excluding one year as a Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1977 to 1978. J.B. is a graduate of Arkansas State University. He received his Master's degree from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.