Anne MacMillan
Anne Cannon MacMillan, a deputy chief of staff to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, has left USDA to become the director of government relations for Roll Global, the California-based company best known for making Pom Wonderful, but that also sells Fiji water, almonds and other food products.

Roll Global is a privately held company founded by Stewart and Lynda Resnick.

According to her 2013 biography in the National Journal, MacMillan came to Washington when she was an undergraduate at the University of San Diego for an internship in the Clinton White House.

She worked for the late Rep. Bob Matsui, D-Calif., before joining the congressional campaign of then-Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., and worked on his congressional staff for eight years. She served as a policy adviser to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., before joining USDA after President Barack Obama’s election.

She initially was a senior adviser to Vilsack in the areas of nutrition, specialty crops, food safety, livestock markets and animal health.

MacMillan is from Sacramento. In addition to her undergraduate degree from UCSD, she has a law degree from the George Washington University School of Law.

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