Previously, Veneman was the United States Secretary of Agriculture, the first and only woman to hold that position.

Veneman is an Honorary Member of Rotary International ( 2008 ), received Sesame Workshop ’ s Leadership Award for Children ( 2006 ), and a Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association of New York ( 2006 ).

In 2002, Veneman received the California Council for International Trade Golden State Award, the Dutch American Heritage Award, Junior Statesman Foundation Statesman of the Year Award and the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Distinguished Service Award.

Forbes cited Veneman in part because she " played a key role in the joint effort by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and the World Bank to help accelerate progress on maternal and newborn health in the 25 countries with the highest rates of infant mortality worldwide.

On May 24, 2001, during the George W. Bush administration, Hawks was sworn in as the Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs by United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman.

Republican Governor Mike Johanns of Nebraska was nominated by Bush on December 2 to replace outgoing United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman.

In 1995 Veneman re-entered government, when she was appointed Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, again being the first woman to hold the position.

In 2004 Veneman was honored with an Honorary Membership with the U. S. State Department ’ s U. S .- Afghan Women ’ s Council and an Honorary Membership with Sigma Alpha Sorority, the national professional agriculture sorority.

As the 27th Secretary of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ), Veneman managed a department of 111, 000 employees, the sixth-largest employer in the federal government, with personnel in more than 25, 000 buildings around the world ; a program level of $ 113 billion that would rank USDA sixth if it were a U. S. corporation ; a spending level that ranks fifth in the federal government ; a loan portfolio that would rank USDA seventh if it were a U. S. bank ; and one of the most diverse and challenging missions across all of government.

To help lead USDA into the 21st century, in 2001 Veneman released a blueprint for agriculture, Food and Agricultural Policy: Taking Stock for the New Century.

Borlaug with USDA Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman near the birthday cake prepared for his 90th birthday

Ann Margaret Veneman ( born June 29, 1949 ) is the former Executive Director of UNICEF, a position she held from 2005 to 2010.

Veneman served as USDA Secretary from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2005, leaving to become the fifth executive director of UNICEF.

A lawyer by training, Veneman has practiced law in Washington, DC and California, including being a deputy public defender.

Veneman serves as a co-leader of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Veneman was raised on a peach farm in Modesto, California.

Her father, John Veneman, was former undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare and member of the California State Assembly.

Veneman began her legal career as a staff attorney with the General Counsel's office of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District in Oakland, California, in 1976.

At this point Veneman took a break from political and administrative office to practice with the law firm and lobby group Patton, Boggs & Blow and also served on several boards of directors and advisory groups.

From 1999 to 2001 Veneman was an attorney with Nossaman LLP, where she focused her attention on food, agriculture, environment, technology, and trade related issues.

Veneman has received several awards and distinctions throughout her career.

In 2009 Veneman was named to the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women list, ranking 46th.

In 2001 Veneman received the Outstanding Woman in International Trade Award, the UC Davis Outstanding Alumna of the Year Award and the Food Research and Action Center Award.

Veneman is currently a board member of Malaria No More, a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria.

Veneman is also co-chair of Mothers Day Every Day, along with former U. S. President Bill Clinton ’ s Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.

For the purpose of maintaining international peace and promoting the advancement of all people, the United States of America joined in founding the United Nations.

Sydney Larson, a staff representative for the United Steel Workers, which the firm's 25 workers joined before striking, said the state Labor Relations Board has been asked to set up an election to pick a bargaining agent.

Warhol's father immigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents.

In 1994 Brazilian troops joined United Nations ( UN ) peacekeeping forces in five countries.

Brunei joined the United Nations in September 1984.

When the United States joined the war, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to pool resources.

The United States having then entered World War II, Lancaster joined the United States Army and performed with the Army's Twenty-First Special Services Division, one of the military groups organized to follow the troops on the ground and provide USO entertainment to keep up morale.

Just four credits short of earning a degree, Bixby dropped out of college and joined the United States Marine Corps after being drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War.

Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.

The United States joined Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Italy, and the Netherlands in 1949 to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the United States ' first " entangling " European alliance in 170 years.

A joint UN force of personnel from South Korea, the United States, Britain, Turkey, Canada, Australia, France, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand and other countries joined to stop the invasion.

Costa Rica joined other Central American countries, plus the Dominican Republic, in establishing a Trade and Investment Council with the United States in March 1998.

Cuba joined the United Nations in 1945.

The Masorti movement did not establish a presence in the United Kingdom until much later and came about largely because of a series of incidents known colletively as the " Jacobs affair ": Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a leading scholar of Anglo Jewry, joined the faculty of the Jews College, leaving his post as Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue, under the impression that he would eventually be made principal.

At some point during the war he left France and joined the United States Air Force as a paratrooper, although some sources claim that this is a myth.

Cassatt had befriended Degas and Pissarro years earlier when she joined Pissarro's newly formed French Impressionist group and gave up opportunities to exhibit in the United States.

Bangladesh joined the United Nations in 1974.

Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and the European Union in 1995.

With the worldwide film boom, yet more countries now joined Britain, France, and the United States in serious film production.

The United States has consistently opposed what it perceives as " unbalanced " " anti-Israel " resolutions and, in recent years, one other nation has joined Israel's defense — Micronesia.

After his masters, Singer joined the Armed Forces, working for the United States Navy on mine warfare and countermeasures from 1944 until 1946.