Southern AgCredit, a rural lending cooperative, recently promoted Joseph Linton to senior credit administrator.    

Linton joined Southern AgCredit in November 2013 as a credit analyst, then he was promoted to senior credit analyst in 2018. Before joining Southern AgCredit, he was an economic analyst with the Strategic Biomass Solutions program at Innovate Mississippi. 

Linton holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering technology and business and a master’s degree in agricultural economics, both from Mississippi State University. 

He and his wife, Regan, have one daughter and reside in Hattiesburg.