"Today, Tennessee Walking Horses are known throughout the industry
as the breed that shows abused and tortured horses."

~ Jim Heird, Ph.D., Do Right By The Horse, February 2010

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

~ St. Francis of Assisi

USDA Contact Information

Kathleen Merrigan
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
kathleen.merrigan@usda.gov

Kevin Shea
APHIS Associate Administrator
202-720-3861
kevin.a.shea@usda.gov 

Gregory L. Parham
APHIS Adminstrator
202-720-3668
Gregory.L.Parham@aphis.usda.gov

Frank Martin
Office of the General Council (office that tries HPA violations cases)
202-720-9242

Gilroy Harden
Office of the Inspector General (office that audited the APHIS HPA program)
301-504-2103
gil.harden@usda.gov

Kim Miller
Office of the Inspector General
kim.miller@oig.usda.gov

Kristan Shields
Office of the Inspector General
kristan.shields@oig.usda.gov

Dr. Rachel Cezar

Head of HPA
301-734-5784
rachel.cezar@aphis.usda.gov

Dr. Chester A. Gipson
Deputy Administrator of Animal Care
301-734-4980
chester.a.gipson@usda.aphis.gov