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Jill Long Thompson
8th Chair of the Farm Credit Administration
In office November 27, 2012 – March 12, 2015
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Leland Strom
Succeeded by
Kenneth Spearman
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
In office 1995–2001
President
Bill Clinton
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th district
In office March 28, 1989 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by
Dan Coats
Succeeded by
Mark Souder
Personal details
Born
Jill Lynette Long
(1952-07-15) July 15, 1952 (age 71) Warsaw, Indiana, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Don Thompson
(m. 1995; died 2022)
Education
Valparaiso University (BA) Indiana University Bloomington (MBA, PhD)
Jill Lynette Long Thompson (born July 15, 1952) is an American politician, educator, and author. A former Congresswoman from Indiana, she is the author of The Character of American Democracy, published by Indiana University Press in September 2020. From 2015 to 2020 she taught ethics as a visiting clinical associate professor at the Kelley School of Business and the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington and during the 2020–2021 academic year she served as a visiting scholar with the Ostrom Workshop, also at Indiana University.[1] Until 2015 she was board chair and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration,[2] a position to which President Barack Obama appointed her. The first person in her family to graduate from college, she earned a B.S. in business administration at Valparaiso University and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business at Indiana University. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Long Thompson's political career began when she was elected to the Valparaiso city council in 1983. She was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1989, representing a heavily Republican district for three terms. In 1995, President Bill Clinton nominated her to serve as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development.
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