On Thursday, December 30, President Joe Biden appointed Joe Aull to be the Missouri State Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency.

According to a news release from Congressman Cleaver’s office, Joe Aull was an educator in four different public school districts in Missouri for a total of 34 years, serving as a teacher, a coach, a middle school principal, a high school principal and a school superintendent. Most recently he was the Superintendent of the Lexington and Marshall School Districts. In 1992, Aull received the Pearce Award as the outstanding school superintendent in the State of Missouri.

After retiring from public education, Aull ran and was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives, where he served for a total of eight years.

During his time in the House, he was the Ranking Member of the Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, and he served all eight years as a member of the House Agriculture Policy Committee. Joe and his wife of 27 years, Candee, live in Lexington, where he is currently the Mayor. They are the proud parents of four, and they also have four grandkids.