Monday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder
announced that Keith Creagh, currently the Director of the Michigan Department
of Agriculture and Rural Development, will succeed Mr. Stokes as Director of
the Department of Natural Resources. Mr. Creagh has had a career or more than
30 years with the Department of Agriculture.
Taking Mr. Creagh’s place at the Michigan
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will be Jamie Clover Adams,
currently the policy director for the Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality. A former Director of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Ms. Clover
Adams was a finalist for the Michigan post as early as 2007 when former Senator
Don Koivisto was named Director by the Michigan Agriculture Commission.