As CCA's administrative assistant, McNames’s role at CCA is communicating with
members and assisting other CCA staff in their ongoing efforts to promote and
protect California’s beef producers.
Raised in the rural town of Etna, in Siskiyou County, McNames graduated from
California State University, Fresno, with a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture
Education. McNames is an enthusiastic individual who has played an integral role
in her family’s fifth generation commercial cow-calf operation. As a 4-H and FFA
member, McNames started her own purebred Angus herd when she was just 13. Her
knowledge of beef production and agriculture in California will be a tremendous
attribute for California livestock producers. Prior to being hired at CCA, she
worked as an office assistant at the California Learning Connection and as a
public relations intern for Carter & Co. Communications in Fresno.
McNames, who also assists the California Wool Growers and the California Pork
Producers, works full time in the CCA office where she will be readily
accessible to the members of these three organizations. She can be contacted in
the CCA office at (916) 444-0845 or by e-mail at claire@calcattlemen.org.