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Aaron R. Morris

Director of Guaranteed Lending
USDA Rural Development
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Aaron Morris serves as the Director of Guaranteed Lending at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service Agency where he is responsible for all guaranteed lending activities. In his role as the Director, Aaron manages a loan portfolio exceeding $10 billion and administers the Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program, the Rural Energy for America Program, the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and BioBased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program, and the Rural Business Investment Program (RBIP).

Prior to this role, Aaron served in various roles in USDA’s Community Facilities program, where he helped lead that program to unprecedented growth that resulted in the program’s loan portfolio doubling in size to just over $10 billion by the time he left the program in January 2017.

Originally from Chicago, IL, Aaron earned his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee and earned his master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri.

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