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Arkansas native uses ag industry experience at new Senate job

Posted by LegiStorm on May 14, 2014

An Arkansas native has parlayed study at agriculture law and work for industry crafting legislative strategy into a new job as a Republican counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Blake Rollins, who hails from Conway, Ark., graduated last year from the University of Arkansas School of Law with an LLM in agriculture and food law. Since then, he served as Special Assistant to the Keys Group, working for livestock industry clients to craft legislative strategy, according to his LinkedIn profile. He followed that this year with a regulatory and legal internship through the Fertilizer Institute, an important agriculture industry lobby. 

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), ranking member of Senate Agriculture, tapped Rollins to be a counsel in March.

Rollins might be a threat in the congressional softball league, if he decides to play. At Hendrix College and Taylor University, where he ultimately graduated with a bachelor's degree, Rollins was on the college baseball team. One summer in college, he played baseball for Athletes in Action, touring Nicaragua, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.