Source: NCDA&CS, 4/28/21


After 36 years working in the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gary Gay is retiring at the end of this week. He’s been the director of the Food Distribution Division since 1994. 

When he started with the department in 1985, he didn’t imagine he’d stay for more than three decades, and he certainly didn’t have an idea of where his career would take him. He began in the Marketing Division, traveling all over the state to provide grading and inspection service for eggs and poultry. In 1990, he moved to the Food Distribution Division and covered a regional territory as a field representative for two years before becoming the administrator of the Food Distribution warehouses in Granville and Rowan Counties.

“Once I got into Food Distribution and got to know all the agencies and the people I was working with, I just fell in love with it and knew it’s what I wanted to do,” Gay said.

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