Dean Schamore, State Executive Director

Dean Schamore was appointed by the Biden Administration to serve as the State Executive Director of the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Kentucky in December 2021.

He is a three-term former State Representative in the Kentucky General Assembly who served on the Agricultural, Tobacco Settlement, Appropriations and Revenue, Veterans, and Banking and Insurance Committees. He also has personal experience in the agriculture industry through his tobacco, grain, and cattle operation.

Schamore is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a Gulf War Veteran. He is the President of Digital Connections Plus, an IT company he started in 1993. He served as Chairman of the Lincoln Trail Workforce Investment Board and President of the Breckinridge County Chamber of Commerce.

Schamore resides in Hardinsburg, Kentucky, and has two daughters and two grandchildren.