Dana Brooks receives UAM Alumni Award for Achievement and Merit

Dana Brooks receives UAM Alumni Award for Achievement and Merit

Dana Brooks, national affairs coordinator for the Florida Farm Bureau, was among six alumni recognized by the University of Arkansas at Monticello for their achievements in business, industry and public policy as well as their contributions to the university as part of UAM’s homecoming celebration on Friday.

The University of Arkansas at Monticello presented the 2007 Alumni Awards for Achievement and Merit to Dr. Steven C. Moss, director of the Department of Microelectronics Technology at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, Calif.; Tommy Maxwell, president and chief executive officer of Maxwell Hardwood Flooring of Monticello; Dana Brooks, a native of Portland, Arkansas and currently national affairs coordinator for the Florida Farm Bureau in Gainesville; James Brown, president and publisher of Capital Gazette Communications; and Jerry Hubbard, president of FTN Financial Capital Assets Corporation.

Brooks is a Portland, Ark., native who graduated from UAM in 1996 with a bachelor of science degree in agriculture. Prior to her current position with the Florida Farm Bureau, Brooks spent seven years in Washington, D.C., first as agriculture legislative assistant for U.S. Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas, then as trade and agriculture legislative assistant for Rep. JoAnn Emerson of Missouri. In 2002, she was named director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation. While working for the Farm Bureau, Brooks lobbied for the farm bill and disaster assistance.