Dr. Kent McKenzie Oroville, California
• B.A., Biology, Willamette University. M.S., Agronomy, University of California, Davis. • Ph.D., Genetics with a minor in Plant Physiology, University of California, Davis. • Retired December 2020 as director and plant breeder at the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation-Rice Experiment Station in Biggs. Currently providing consulting support to CCRRF and Albaugh LLC. • 2021 California Rice Industry Award. • 2014 Rice Industry Award. • Member of the Crop Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, American Association of Cereal Chemists and Rice Technical Working Group. • Serves on the California Rice Certification Committee and the Research and Technology Committee for the California Rice Commission. • Serves on several committees and task forces for the USA Rice Federation. • Active participant — Temperate Rice Research Consortium. • Wife, Kathryn, DVM. Two sons: Lt. Cmdr. Douglas McKenzie USN (wife, Elizabeth, and three daughters: Isabella, Juliana and Sophia) and John Ross McKenzie (wife, Laura).
