Kuehn Named Award Winner for CCC-Hastings

(Hastings, Neb.) – Dillon Kuehn of Alexandria, Va., has been selected as the 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award recipient from Central Community College-Hastings.

He graduated from CCC-Hastings with an associate of science degree in 2012 and then transferred to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness.

Kuehn is employed as the legislative director for Water Strategies, LLC, a government relations, publishing and marketing firm located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., that specializes in water, power and agricultural issues.

Prior to joining Water Strategies, he served as a congressional aide for Rep. Adrian Smith, who represents Nebraska’s Third District. He covered issues related to appropriations, environmental protection, finance, government operations, immigration, labor, law, public lands and natural resources, science and telecommunications, transportation and public works, and water resources development.

Kuehn has an extensive background in agricultural and natural resource issues from his former employment as a sales agronomist for a cooperative and as a regional manager for a livestock system engineering and environmental compliance firm. He became aware of the importance of secure water resources and water quality while working for his father’s well drilling business, installing monitoring wells throughout Nebraska and parts of Kansas and Colorado. He also has a deep background in farming, irrigating, and ranching.