5 Things to Know About Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of Agriculture

Behind-the-scenes Texas ‘ag girl’ gets prime time role in leading 100,000-employee USDA with a trillion dollar budget on tap.

Brooke Rollins, president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27, 2024. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) John Haughey

President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 23 nominated conservative Texas attorney Brooke Rollins to be his administration’s secretary of agriculture.

Rollins, 52, was raised by a single mother in Glen Rose, a farming town of 1,200 about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, and has an undergraduate degree in agricultural development from Texas A&M University. She and her husband, Mark Rollins, and their four children are described as devout Texas A&M Aggie football fans, according to her biography.