# Performance Review Board Appointments
**AGENCY:**
Office of Human Resource Management, Departmental Management, USDA.
**ACTION:**
Notice of Appointment.
**SUMMARY:**
This notice announces the appointment of the members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and Senior Level (SL) and Scientific or Professional (ST) Performance Review Boards (PRB) for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as required by 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4). The Performance Review Board assures consistency, stability, and objectivity in the performance appraisal process. USDA has a total of six PRBs: the Secretary's PRB; Departmental Management and Staff Offices PRB; Natural Resources and Environment PRB; Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Rural Development, and Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services PRB; Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Food Safety PRB; and Research, Education, and Economics PRB. The PRBs are comprised of career and noncareer executives and Chairpersons to make recommendations on the performance of executives to the Secretary, including performance ratings and bonuses for SES, SL, and ST employees. The boards meet annually to review and evaluate performance appraisal documents and provide written recommendations to the Secretary for final approval of performance ratings and base salary increases.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), the following executives may be appointed by mission areas to the USDA PRBs:
**Office of the Secretary**
Christenson, Daniel; Wheelock, Leslie.
**Departmental Management (OAO, OBPA, OCIO, OCFO, OHSEC, OHRM, OJO, OO, and OPPM) and Staff Offices (ASCR, OCE, OC, OCR, OGC, and NA)**
Alboum, Jonathan; Bender, Stuart; Bice, Donald; Black, David; Bumbary-Langston, Inga; Grahn, David; Holladay, Jon; Jeanquart, Roberta; Johansson, Robert C.; Jones, Carmen; Jones, Diem-Linh; Leonard, Joe; Parham, Gregory L.; Prieto, Jeffrey; Shorter, Malcom; Ware, Joseph A.; Wiggins, Marsha A.; Wilusz, Lisa; Young, Michael.
**Marketing and Regulatory Programs (MRP)**
Avalos, Edward.
**Agricultural Marketing Service**
Barnes, Rex; Morris, Erin.
**Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service**
Gregoire, Michael; Shea, A. Kevin.
**Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration**
Mitchell, Lawrence W.
**Food Safety**
Almanza, Alfred; Ronholm, Brian.
**Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services**
Scuse, Michael.
**Foreign Agricultural Service**
Quick, Bryce.
**Farm Service Agency**
Beyerhelm, Christopher.
**Risk Management Agency**
Alston, Michael.
**Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services**
Wilson, Kathryn.
**Food and Nutrition Service**
Dean, Telora; Jackson, Yvette.
**Rural Development**
Salerno, Lillian.
**Rural Business Service**
Parker, Chadwick O.
**Rural Housing Service**
Glendenning, Roger; Hernandez, Tony; Primrose, Edna.
**Rural Utilities Service**
Adams, Keith.
**Natural Resources and Environment**
Blazer, Arthur; Bonnie, Robert.
**Forest Service**
Blount, Emilee; Mills, Ann; Rodriguez-Franco, Carlos.
**Natural Resources Conservation Service**
Berns-Melhus, Kim; Norman-Barry, Gayle.
**Research, Education and Economics**
Bartuska, Ann.
**Agricultural Research Service**
Jacobs-Young, Chavonda.
**Economic Research Service**
Bohman, Mary; Pompelli, Gregory K.
**National Agricultural Statistics Service**
Hamer, Jr., Hubert; Picanso, Renee; Reilly, Joseph.
**National Institute of Food and Agriculture**
Broussard, Meryl; Ramaswamy, Sonny.
**DATES:**
Effective November 2, 2015.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Roberta Jeanquart, Director, Office of Human Resources Management, telephone: (202) 260-8718, email: *[email protected]* Patricia Moore, Director, Executive Resources Management Division, telephone: (202) 720-8629, email: *[email protected].*
(Authority: 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4).)
Dated: November 3, 2015.
Thomas J. Vilsack,
Secretary.