Miley Gonzalez was sworn in as Director of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture in July 2003.

Since Sept. 1996 as associate dean and director for academic programs in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at New Mexico State University (NMSU). He was assistant dean and deputy director of the Cooperative Extension Service at NMSU from 1994-96. From 1991-94 he was professor and head of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education at NMSU. He served as an assistant director of international agriculture programs in the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University from 1988-91.

Gonzalez ran his own international training and consulting business, based in Arizona, from 1984-88. From 1982-84 he was an assistant professor of agricultural & Extension education at Iowa State University. He worked as a state 4-H specialist and an Extension specialist at Pennsylvania State University from 1980-82. From 1978-80 he served on a detail from Pennsylvania State U. to be the director of an agricultural education project with the cooperative education organization "INCE," and was based in Caracas, Venezuela. He was assistant director in the Office of Resident Instruction in the College of Agriculture at the University of Arizona from 1976-78.

From 1972-73 Gonzalez managed production and marketing for a spice farm in four northern states of Mexico. He taught agricultural-related subjects at a high school on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Parker, Ariz., from 1970-72. During 1970 he worked on a cattle ranch in Venezuela.

Born in Ysleta, Texas and raised on a small farm with livestock in San Simon, Ariz., Gonzalez holds B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in agricultural education and both from the University of Arizona, as well as a Ph.D. degree in agricultural and Extension education from Pennsylvania State University