About Our President

Angie Billups

Anjanette “Angie” Billups, District Conservationist for Henry County, Georgia, has worked professionally for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for nearly seventeen years. She began her career with the agency, then the Soil Conservation Service, as a Summer Intern in Alabama in 1991 and as a Student Trainee the following year. After becoming a permanent employee, she served the State of Alabama as Soil Conservationist for Bibb, Geneva and Perry Counties, District Conservationist for Fayette and Tuscaloosa Counties and State Outreach Coordinator. In 2000, she began working for NRCS in Georgia and has since served as Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Program Coordinator for the Chestatee-Chattahoochee RC&D Council, Resource Conservationist, and Acting Assistant State Conservationist for Operations. 

During her tenure with NRCS, President Billups has received numerous awards and honors, including serving as Civil Rights Committee Chair and Federal Women’s Program Manager in Alabama, and Chair of the State Outreach Working Group in Georgia. She presently serves as State Outreach Coordinator for NRCS in Georgia as a co-lateral assignment.

Angie became a member of the National Organization of Professional Black NRCS Employees while working in Alabama in 1995. As a member, she served as Vice-President of the Alabama Chapter, President of the Georgia Chapter, and was elected to two terms as Vice-President of the national body. She has served as President of The Organization since the resignation of Past-President, Charles Adams, in July of 2007. As the first female President, she has worked to achieve change, growth, inclusion, and unity and to make The Organization “a place where its members can become better employees, and individuals.”

Born in Detroit, Michigan, President Billups spent her childhood growing up in Columbus, Mississippi. She is a proud graduate of Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi where she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics in 1992. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia where she enjoys traveling, swimming and reading. When asked her philosophy of life, she responds, “Put God first, and live every day to the fullest!”

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