Speaker Highlight: Former Trump Advisor and USDA Chief Ray Starling to Headline ASTA Leadership Summit

Ray Starling, former Special Assistant to President Trump for Agriculture and Agricultural Trade and Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, will headline ASTA’s Leadership Summit June 8-11, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

With more than 20 years of experience in public and private sector service, Starling has worked in the U.S. Senate, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in private practice, and as a clerk in the North Carolina Supreme Court. Starling now serves as general counsel of the North Carolina Chamber and president of the North Carolina Chamber Legal Institute.