Thomas Knecht ACE President 2003-04 Mississippi State University Starkville, MS
Tom Knecht was born March 6, 1941, in Elgin, Ill. He received bachelor's and
master's degrees in English from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1963 and 1965, respectively, and a doctorate in
adult and community college education from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 1994.
Knecht began his communications career as publications director with the
Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois from 1974 to
1978. He was appointed head of the office of publications in the UIUC College
of Agriculture in 1978. He moved to the department of agricultural
communications at North Carolina State University in 1985, serving as leader
of the publications section from 1985 to 1994, production and special projects
coordinator from 1994 to 1996, and department head from 1996 to 1998. He was
appointed head of the office of agricultural communications at Mississippi
State University in August 1998.
Knecht has been active in ACE since 1980. He served as chair of the marketing
SIG from 1996-97. He chaired the Strategic Planning Committee from 1998 to 2000.
In 2000-01 he was ACE state representative for Mississippi. He served on the
Planning Committee for the 1999 ACE international meeting and was co-chair of
the Planning Committee for the Risk Communication Superworkshop held in Orlando
in May 2000.
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