About the Judges
Channing D. Strother, Chief Administrative Law Judge
Chief Administrative Law Judge Channing D. Strother joined OALJ in August 2016. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue appointed him Chief Judge on October 17, 2018. He conducts rulemaking and adjudicatory hearings throughout the country in proceedings subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 et seq., under approximately fifty statutes administered by USDA agencies that require APA hearings.
