Cathy Glover was presented with this Rural Housing Award at the 2021 HAC National Rural Housing Conference.
Cathy Glover is the Deputy Administrator for USDA, Rural Development, Single Family Housing programs. She leads the Single-Family Housing (SFH) Guarantee and Direct Loan Programs. In 1988, Cathy started her career with the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) as an Assistant County Supervisor in the Shelbyville, Taylorville, Monticello and Champaign County offices in Illinois assisting SFH direct loan applicants, borrowers as well as rural families with FmHA’s farm loan programs. In 1995, she became a State Loan Specialist in the Champaign state office overseeing and growing the relatively new SFH guaranteed loan program in Illinois. Cathy’s experience working with rural communities lead her to work with Rural Development’s business programs in Illinois, and later to the National office in business programs as well as the SFH direct and guaranteed loan programs.
Cathy also spent two years with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, working in the Federal Housing Administration’s Home Mortgage Insurance Division before returning to lead USDA’s SFH Direct Loan Division in 2014. Cathy was later promoted to Assistant Deputy Administrator for Single Family Housing and served as the Acting Deputy Administrator for several months while the position was vacant.
In February 2020, Cathy was selected as USDA’s first Executive Director of the SFH Guaranteed Loan Program, a centralized delivery system overseeing 100+ staff across the entire US. In August 2020, Cathy was promoted to USDA’s Deputy Administrator for Single Family Housing. Cathy has built many strong alliances with affordable housing organizations throughout her 30 plus years of federal service and supported several initiatives that improved access to housing for low- and moderate-income rural Americans.
In terms of impact, since her return to RD in 2014, Cathy has led the Single-Family Housing Programs in providing assistance to more than 1 million households, helping over 2.6 million rural residents, and distributing some $160 billion dollars.
Finally, Cathy is a 1987 graduate of Alcorn State University and now resides in Lorton Virginia with her husband John. She has three children, and two grandchildren.
