Michaele Olseson

Michaele Oleson joined the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality in June of 2007, and works in the agency’s northeast field office in Norfolk. Oleson is responsible for compliance inspections for the agency’s agriculture section, as well as the waste division. She also is responsible for complaint investigations and compliance assistance.

She is responsible for livestock inspections in Madison, Pierce, Cedar, Knox, Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, and Rock counties.

Prior to coming to Nebraska, Oleson’s most recent position was with the Wyoming Department of Agriculture. Her duties included a major focus on meat safety and she was responsible for all state inspected and custom meat and slaughter inspections for her area of the state.

Oleson grew up in central Wyoming and attended a private Christian high school in Miller, SD. After high school, she attended Central Wyoming College and then a few years later moved to Farmington, NM and attended San Juan College and received an associate’s degree in Business. She moved to Albuquerque, NM to attend the University of New Mexico and completed her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry. She worked in a research laboratory at the UNM School of Medicine for two years before moving back to central Wyoming in 1992. She worked as a Laboratory Chemist at an H2S gas plant and a Quality Control Chemist at a sulfuric acid plant in Wyoming before joining the Wyoming Department of Agriculture in 2002.

She has five daughters, three of which are still at home. They live on an acreage west of Madison, where they raise Nubian dairy goats and make and sell goat’s milk soaps and lotions as a family business.

“I have met many of the producers in my territory and have very much enjoyed working with them as well as learning from them,” Oleson said. “I look forward to meeting all those I have yet to meet. Please feel free to call me at any time.”