(Cargill: Washington, D.C.) -- U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, has named Cargill corporate vice president, Jerry Rose, to chair the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The board advises the Commerce Department on all aspects of the Baldrige National Quality Program, including the adequacy of the criteria and processes for determining award recipients. Its 11 members are leaders from all sectors of the U.S. economy, including the service and manufacturing industries, small business, education, health care and nonprofits.

Rose has been a corporate vice president at Cargill since 2004. In 1999, he was president of Sunny Fresh Foods when it became the first Cargill business and first food company ever to be honored with a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The egg-processing subsidiary (since renamed Cargill Kitchen Solutions) repeated the feat in 2005. A second Cargill business, Cargill Corn Milling North America, earned a Baldrige in 2008.

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