Board of Directors & Staff

2025 Board of Directors

Jay Abbott, Red Sun Farms, LLC, Dublin - Term Ends 2025

Robert B. Bahr, Brilee Farm, Timberville - Term Ends 2025

Teresa Callender, Rockingham Cooperative, Dayton - Term Ends 2027

Jason Carter, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative, Rockingham - Term Ends 2025

Patrick Connelly, Landscape Supply, Inc., Midlothian - Term Ends 2026

Brad Cornelius, Farm Credit of the Virginias, Staunton - Term Ends 2027

Paul Franklin, Colonial Farm Credit, Mechanicsville - Term Ends 2025


Gil Grattan, Virginia Green Lawn Care, Richmond - Term Ends 2025

Lynn Graves, Graves Mountain Farm, Syria - Term Ends 2025

Tim Grove, Houff Corporation, Weyers Cave - Term Ends 2027

Matt Hickman, Dublin Farms, Horntown - Term Ends 2025

Jamie Hodnett, Nutrien - Term Ends 2026

Ray Keating, Perdue Agribusiness, Chesapeake - Term Ends 2025

Stewart T. Leeth, Smithfield Foods, Smithfield - Term Ends 2026

Grayson Long, FFA State President, Bedford - Term Ends 2025

Wes Marshall, Marshall Farms, LLC, Weyers Cave - Term Ends 2025

Tom McDougall, 4P Foods, Warrenton - Term Ends 2025

Eddie Oliver, Virginia Food Banks, Richmond - Term Ends 2026

Robert N. Pemberton III, Cherry Dale Farms, Doswell - Term Ends 2027 

Douglas R. Phillips, Phillips & Turman Tree Farms, Indian Valley - Term Ends 2026

Keith Phillips, First Bank & Trust Company, Harrisonburg - Term Ends 2026

Marlene Pierson-Jolliffe, Meadow Event Park/ State Fair of Virginia, Doswell - Term Ends 2027

Lindsay Reames, Maola Local Dairies., Herndon - Term Ends 2025

Jim Riddell, Georgewood Farm, Estes Cattle, Mineral - Term Ends 2027 

Claiborne B. Roberts, Hastings Farm, Sandston - Term Ends 2025

Ernesto Sanabria, Red Sun Farms, Dublin - Term Ends 2027

C.M. Saunders, III, Saunders Farms, Midlothian - Term Ends 2025

Greg Scheerer, Westrock, Covington - Term Ends 2025

G. Lea ScottUniversal Leaf Tobacco Co., Inc., Richmond - Term Ends 2027

Daniel K. Shreckhise, Shreckhise Nurseries, Grottoes - Term Ends 2027 

Tom Taliaferro, Montague Farms, Inc., Center Cross - Term Ends 2025

Christopher Tan, Foodbank of SEVA and the Eastern Shore, Norfolk - Term Ends 2025

Andrew Vehorn, Va., Md. & Del. Assn. of Electric Co-ops., Glen Allen - Term Ends 2025

Lake Wagner, Green Valley Poultry Farm, Abingdon - Term Ends 2026

Lindsey Watson, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, Fredericksburg - Term Ends 2025

Craig Zeigler, Agronomic Lawn Management, Chesapeake - Term Ends 2027




To submit a nomination for the Council's Board of Directors, please email us.



2025 Executive Committee

Chair, Paul Franklin

Vice Chair, Jim Riddell

Secretary, Jamie Hodnett

Treasurer, Andrew Vehorn

At-Large, Keith Phillips

At-Large, Lindsey Watson

Ex-officio, Lindsay Reames


 
Staff

Executive Director

Cliff Williamson

cliff@va-agribusiness.org


Operations & Member Engagement Specialist

April Carr

april@va-agribusiness.org


Please send membership inquiries by email to vac@va-agribusiness.org.

 
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