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• The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has hired Hannah Walker as a director of government relations to represent food retailers on Capitol Hill.

Walker formerly was federal policy advisor for the State of Florida Washington Office, dedicated to agriculture energy, tax, trade and environmental issues, and later to Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), who served on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee and chaired the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry.
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