Steve Connelly
Speaker
Connelly was appointed Deputy Secretary Connelly in January 2022. Prior to that he served as Assistant Secretary of Marketing, Animal Industries, and Consumer Services.
Connelly previously was working at MDA managing a Crop Insurance and Risk Management promotion program. He earned a degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland. His earlier career includes being a partner in the Capstone Group-NCH, a firm providing association management and government relation services, USDA’s Farm Service Agency, Maryland Ag Education Foundation, Maryland Department of Agriculture, and Maryland Farm Bureau. He was raised on a family dairy farm in Cecil County, MD and resides in Rising Sun, MD with his wife Valerie.