IN NEW POSITION

PORTAGEVILLE, Ill. -- J. D. McNutt has been named director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Extension, and will be headquartered here.

McNutt, who comes to Missouri from Oklahoma where he served as Southwest district rural Development specialist for Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension, will provide program and administrative leadership in a 16-county area.

He is a graduate Oklahoma state with a bachelor's degree in agricultural education; has a master's degree in secondary education from East Central Oklahoma state, and a Ph.D in agricultural education from Oklahoma state in 1986.

McNutt and his wife, Jessie, have a son, Christopher, 14.