President-elect Trump is planning to meet with Elsa Murano, the former president of Texas A&M, about serving as secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
Transition spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday that the two will meet next week.
Murano served as president of Texas A&M from 2008 to 2009. At the time of her appointment, the school said she was the first Hispanic and first woman to lead the university, although she resigned in 2009 after the university system gave her low marks in a performance review.
She replaced Robert Gates, who left Texas A&M at the time to become then-President George W. Bush’s defense secretary.
Murano also served in Bush’s administration from 2001-2004 as undersecretary for food safety at USDA. She previously worked as a professor in the Texas A&M department of animal science.
Murano, who remained on the faculty of Texas A&M after stepping down as president, serves on the board of Hormel Foods.
Other people who had been floated for agriculture secretary: former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, outgoing Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and Trump campaign agriculture advisory committee chairman Charles Herbster.
