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H. Duane Norman has been appointed research leader of the Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory in the Livestock and Poultry Sciences Institute, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, USDA. Norman is an international authority in the area of genetic improvement of dairy animals for production efficiency. He developed many of the procedures used by the US dairy cattle industry to rank bulls and cows for yield traits, linear type traits, and economic indexes that combine several traits. In 1986, he received the Order of Merit in Agriculture from the Polish Ministry of Agriculture for his participation in the United Nations' dairy cattle breeding trial in Poland.

Norman received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. He completed a Ph.D. in animal breeding at Cornell University in 1970. After completion of his graduate research, Norman joined USDA's Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory in Beltsville, MD as a research geneticist.