Board of Directors
Agricultural Advancement Consortium

Chair - Faylene Whitaker, Whitaker Farms
Vice Chair - Larry Wooten, President, North Carolina Farm Bureau
Secretary – Billy Ray Hall, President, Rural Center
John Adams, Eastern Foods
Charles Albertson,Senator, N.C. General Assembly
Linda Shaw, Executive Director, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA
Dale Bone, Owner/Operator, Dale Bone Farms
Blake Brown, N.C. State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, N.C. Research Campus
Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources
Billy Carter, Chair, Tobacco Trust Fund Commission
John Cooper, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development
J. Keith Crisco, Director, N.C. Department of Commerce
Lawrence Davenport, Owner/Operator, Davenport Farms; Board Member, Golden LEAF
Dee Freeman, Secretary, N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources
Jimmy Gentry, President, N.C. State Grange
Dewey Hill, Chair, N.C. House of Representatives, Agriculture Committee
Ronald Jackson, President, Clinton Trucking and Tractor Co.
O.C. Jenkins Jr., Owner/Operator, Jenkins Farms
Richard Jones, Wachovia Bank
Donald R. McDowell, Interim Dean, N.C. A&T University, College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
Erica Peterson, Executive Vice President, N.C. Agribusiness Council
Cecil Settle, Executive Director, N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Alton Thompson, Interim Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, N.C. A&T State University
Steve Troxler, N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture
Johnny Wynne, Dean, N.C. State University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences