Jonathan Cordone

At a glance

• Former Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture, where he led USDA’s international activities.

• Former Principal Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

• Former Chief Counsel, US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry.

• Former General Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce.

Jonathan Cordone is a Senior Advisor with Boundary Stone Partners.

With more than twenty-years of policy experience, Jonathan served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, USDA’s Principal Deputy General Counsel, and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Jonathan also had the privilege of serving as senior staff in both houses of Congress, including as General Counsel to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry. His bipartisan work was instrumental in the enactment the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Agriculture Act of 2014, and several laws aimed at safeguarding consumers from faulty products and unfair commercial practices.

Jonathan is the Principal and Founder of Cordone Consulting LLC and the Executive Director of the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a nationwide coalition of the fruit, vegetable, and horticulture industries in the United States. He began his career practicing law in New York and Connecticut in commercial finance. He earned his B.A. in political science from Mary Washington College and his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. He volunteers as a voting rights attorney and supports a number of other charitable causes.