Former USDA Undersecretary and Director of Presidential Personnel for the Clinton White House.

Bob J. Nash attended Booker T. Washington High School in Texarkana, Arkansas. He attended AM&N College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he achieved his B.A. in Sociology. After college, he moved to Washington, DC, with a scholarship to Howard University. There, he received his master’s in
urban planning.

Bob grew up in the Southwest region where alligator, snake, gar, and lots of bayou fish were the norm. Bob learned to cook in the small cafes and grills of Texarkana, Arkansas, saying, “My big chance came when the fry cook called in sick; the owner knew he was drunk again. From that night on, I was the fry
cook.” Bob’s specialties are southern cooked foods, including grilled meats, vegetables, southern fried catfish and, of course, Tex-Mex cornbread.

Bob worked 50 years in the nonprofit world, state government, federal government, and banking. He was vice president of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Economic Advisor to Governor Bill Clinton; then joined the Clinton White House, where he was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Undersecretary of USDA and as White House Director of Presidential Personnel.

He worked seven years as Vice Chair of Shore Bank Chicago before joining the Hillary Clinton Campaign in 2008. He later worked as a consultant for the Witt Emergency Services. Today, Bob is a self-employed consultant with Bob J. Nash & Associations.