Board of Directors
Agricultural Advancement Consortium

Chair – Faylene Whitaker, Whitaker Farms
Vice Chair - Larry Wooten, Executive Director, North Carolina Farm Bureau
Secretary – Billy Ray Hall, President, Rural Center
John Adams, Eastern Foods
Charles Albertson, Chair, Agriculture Committee, N.C. Senate
Betty Bailey, Executive Director, Rural Advancement Foundation International USA
Dale Bone, Dale Bone Farms
Billy Carter, Chair, Tobacco Trust Fund Commission
John Cooper, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development
Lawrence Davenport, Past Chair, Golden LEAF
Lizbeth Evans, N.C. Secretary of Cultural Resources
Jim Fain, N.C. Secretary of Commerce
Jimmy Gentry, President, N.C. State Grange
Dewey Hill, Chair, Agriculture Committee, N.C. House of Representatives
Ronald Jackson, Clinton Trucking and Tractor Co.
O.C. Jenkins, Jenkins Farms
Richard Jones, Wachovia Bank, Greenville
Erica Peterson, N.C. Agribusiness Council
William Ross, N.C. Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources
Cecil Settle, Executive Director, N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Alton Thompson, Dean, N.C. A&T State University College of Agriculture
Steve Troxler, N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture
Johnny Wynne, Dean, N.C. State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences