Joanne Locke has been Plain Language Coordinator of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1998. This conference is a return engagement for Joanne, who represented the US government's Plain English Network at the 2000 Plain Language in Progress Conference. Since then, she has spoken about plain language in science writing at the annual meetings of the Council of Science Editors (2001) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002).