Janice A. Goodwin
Director, Western Field Operations
Janice Goodwin serves as the Director of Western Field Offices, Field Operations, for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). She is responsible for overseeing the personnel, budget, facilities, and the overall data collection and analysis operations of 22 mid-western and western Field Offices. Field Operations is responsible for a total of 46 Field Offices, including a cooperative office with the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Goodwin began her career at NASS as a student intern in the Pennsylvania Field Office and has since moved on to various positions in the Illinois and Oregon Field Offices, and in Headquarters. While in these positions she worked on different aspects of the Agency’s survey, estimation, and mail list development programs. Most recently, Goodwin served as the Director of the Oregon Field Office in Portland, OR, prior to accepting her Senior Executive position in Field Operations in 2005.
Goodwin has also completed several details and special assignments which has broadened her knowledge and experience beyond NASS and U.S. agriculture. In the 1990’s she twice traveled to Nicaragua as a member of a NASS technical team tasked with strengthening Nicaragua’s agricultural statistics program. In 1993, Goodwin was detailed to the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland for four months, coordinating customer service survey training programs for Federal agencies. While at JPSM, she served as a member of a cross-Government, multi-Department team that was the recipient of the Administration’s Hammer Award for reinventing government. Later, she was a LEGIS Fellow with the Brookings Institution, which culminated in a six-month fellowship on Capitol Hill working with the House Appropriations Committee's Agriculture Subcommittee and with the House Agriculture Committee during the early debate and policy development of the 2002 Farm Bill.
Goodwin grew up on a family dairy farm in northeastern Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State University with degrees in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. She and her husband, James Copp, have a son, William, and a daughter, Keon Noelle.
Last modified: 05/20/10
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