Complex sentence: In 1981, Mizell was named Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Governmental and Public Affairs in the Reagan administration, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs in the George H. W. Bush administration.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1981, Mizell was appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Governmental and Public Affairs in the Reagan administration. Later he was appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, in the George H. W. Bush administration.