Colleen Landkamer

Colleen Landkamer was appointed in 2022 by President Biden to serve a second term as the Minnesota State Director for USDA Rural Development. She was first appointed by President Obama to serve as USDA Rural Development State Director for Minnesota in 2009 and continued this service for eight years through the end of the Administration. Landkamer began her career in public service back in 1988 when she was first elected to the Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners. She served Blue Earth County as a Commissioner for 21 years before her first appointment with Rural Development, then was re-elected to the board in 2019 until her second appointment as State Director with USDA.

Landkamer has an enormous passion and energy for rural communities. Under her leadership and appointments, USDA has invested over $8 billion in Minnesota’s rural communities. Her dedication to rural is has no boundaries, from her involvement in forming the National Association of Counties Rural Action Caucus (RAC) in 1998 to serving as NACo President in 2006 and 2007. Landkamer’s enthusiasm for RAC helped take it from an organization of 20 members to several hundred.