Consejera de Agricultura

11:57 Feb 9, 2019 

Is how I used to translate it back in the day (I very rarely get work from the regional government nowadays). Ditto what Charles said, basically.

08:37 Feb 9, 2019 

... start with CyL: "Castile-Leon Councillor/Commissioner for Agriculture".

23:30 Feb 8, 2019 

Regional Councillor of Agriculture is probably the most accurate, though I wonder what does this convey to you English natives. I am one of those that Charles describes who would feel really uncomfortable with Minister here. Regional Minister still sounds a little off -but this of course is not something to take into account ;)

23:29 Feb 8, 2019 

...but as Charles is right to emphasise, she ain't no minister. I wonder if it would be possible to work in "with responsibility for agriculture..." Here's the organigrama: https://gobierno.jcyl.es/web/jcyl/Gobierno/es/Plantilla100Or...
The other idea that occurs to me is "commissioner" - or is that too EU?

22:59 Feb 8, 2019 

Don't forget Knight's Castile soap... spelt and pronounced as "eel" - as in these lovely ads;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hq_taL79LU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRoI4SlRL8w

I agree with Charles about including "regional"; and with Chema about "Councillor" on reflection.
I often prefer "for" to "of" but:
"...the Regional Councillor of Economy and Employment..."
https://www.ree.es/en/press-office/press-release/2013/09/cha...

20:50 Feb 8, 2019 

Or perhaps, given how "tile" and "till" are pronounced in English (not to mention the French spelling), "Castile" was itself a misspelling of "Castille" :-) Totally unintuitive.

BTW, thanks, regarding "secretary". Still, I can't help feeling there must be a better solution to this than "minister" / "department" for "consejera" / "consejería".

20:34 Feb 8, 2019 

"Secretary" is a tempting alternative, I agree, but I think that potentially opens another can of worms, since it could easily be understood to correspond to "secretario", which denotes a lower tier of the hierarchy (secretario de estado, secretario general) within ministries at both national and autonomous community level.

20:26 Feb 8, 2019 

"Castille" is a very common misspelling of "Castile". I suppose people get muddled because of the double L in Spanish.

20:15 Feb 8, 2019 

Thanks for the insight. I couldn't get away with just using "minister" here in any case because, as I said below, the national minister is already mentioned in the same sentence. I was hoping I might be able to use another word entirely. I don't know, to me, "regional minister" seems to imply they are subordinate to the "ministerio", but that doesn't appear to be the case. "Secretary" or "Regional secretary" perhaps?

20:00 Feb 8, 2019 

I translate this as "regional minister". For "consejería" I often use "department" rather than "ministry". It's true, as Rebecca says, that an autonomous community is not strictly a "region", constitutionally, but although I would not refer to Castilla y León as a "region", I think the adjective "regional" is acceptable and it's certainly neater than the alternative.

I am strongly opposed to omitting "regional". I don't think you can just call this person the Minister of Agriculture or Agriculture Minister. That is a position in the national government. There is a deeply-held view among public officials in Spain that the word "ministro" cannot be used at autonomous community level, and I have had had objections from public-sector clients to the use of "minister" for "consejero". They really seem to feel very uncomfortable with it. My arguments for using it have always prevailed so far, provided that it is qualified by "regional". I am quite sure that "minister" alone would invite objections; indeed, as I say, I know from experience that this is so.

19:34 Feb 8, 2019 

Your answers came in almost at the same time, so I'll address them here if that's okay.
I should have mentioned that the "Ministro de Agricultura" is also mentioned in the same paragraph!