55th Annual Vegetable & Flower Seed Conference

Virginia Houston




As Associate Director for Domestic and Government Affairs, Virginia Houston is responsible for assisting in ASTA’s federal legislative and regulatory initiatives. In addition, she assists with the advocacy efforts of the association through representing ASTA on Capitol Hill, tracking proposed legislation, coordinating comments and testimony to Congress, and managing the activities of SeedFirstPAC. Most recently Virginia was employed with the National Pork Producers Council, where she managed member outreach, legislative research and NPPC’s political action committee. She held previous positions at the Animal Agriculture Alliance and Agriculture Marketing Service at USDA. A native of east Tennessee, Virginia grew up on a diversified cow/calf operation, and her family owns and operates the oldest livestock auction market in Tennessee. Virginia has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Mississippi and a master’s in Political Management from The George Washington University.

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