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CoBank hires former House and Senate staffer to fill lobbying role

Posted by Steve Shapiro on Sept. 16, 2015

An agricultural credit bank has harvested some fresh talent from Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) to manage their government relations.

Lauren Sturgeon left her role as a professional staff member for Inhofe on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in August to join CoBank ACB, a bank that is part of the Farm Credit System. This move will be her second transition from Congress to the private sector after she left the House to become the director of external affairs at the Oklahoma Water Resources Board in 2013. She returned to D.C. in January 2015 to take the EPW position.

Sturgeon has been covering agricultural issues for some time. While at the House, she worked as a legislative assistant under Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) on the Agricultural Committee for nearly three years.