Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2001
Craig A. Lang is the Chairman of the Board, and chair of the Executive Committee. He has been a director of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation since 1992 and was its Vice President for six years beginning in 1995. He has been a director of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company and Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company since 1993. In December 2001 he was elected President of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and director and President of its subsidiary, Farm Bureau Management Corporation. He was also then named President of Farm Bureau Life and Farm Bureau Mutual (until 2003), a director and President of EquiTrust Life, a director of Western Agricultural Insurance Company (Western Ag), and a director and chair of EquiTrust Mutual Funds. In 2003 Lang was elected to the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He is also a director of FB BanCorp. He served as the Iowa governor's appointed chairman of the Grow Iowa Values Fund, within the Iowa Department of Economic Development, in 2003 and 2006. Lang was named a member of the Iowa Board of Regents in April 2007. Lang is the lead director of Iowa Telecom, and chairman of its Compensation Committee. Lang has farmed since 1973 in partnership with his father and brother on 1,200 acres near Brooklyn, Iowa where they have a 500 head dairy operation.
Kansas Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2002
Steve L. Baccus became a Class B Director in May 2002 after being named President of the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation. He is also Chairman of the board of directors of Farm Bureau Mutual and a director of Farm Bureau Life, EquiTrust Life, Western Ag and FB BanCorp. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Kansas Weslyan University in Salina, Kansas. In 2004 Baccus was elected to the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation. His family farm in Ottawa County, Kansas produces wheat, milo, soybeans, sunflower and irrigated corn. Baccus earned bachelors and masters degrees in psychology from Washburn University and Chapman College, respectively.
Roger K. Brooks became a Class A director in May 2009, filling a board vacancy. Brooks is the retired Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of AmerUs Group. He retired from AmerUs in 2005, after nearly 50 years of service. Brooks has served on numerous community boards and is a member of the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame and Iowa Business Hall of Fame. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. Brooks graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Iowa. He also participated in Stanford University's Executive Program.
Jerry L. Chicoine is the Lead Director of the independent directors, Vice Chairman of the Board, and serves on the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee. He has been named by the Board of Directors as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts." Chicoine retired effective January 1, 2001 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. He had served in those capacities since 1999, and was Pioneer's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since 1997. From 1988 to 1997 he had served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He was named a director of Pioneer Hi-Bred in March 1998. He was named Outstanding CPA in Business and Industry by the Iowa Society of CPA's in 1998. He was a partner in the accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen from 1969 to 1986, and also holds a law degree. He is a member of the board of directors of several non-public companies, including Ruan Holdings, The Weitz Company and Bankers Trust Company N.A. of Phoenix.
Montana Livestock Ag Credit, Inc. Class A Director since 2004
Tim H. Gill has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Montana Livestock Ag Credit, Inc. since 1986. The company specializes in agricultural finance throughout the state of Montana, underwrites long term real estate loans and has its own investment offerings. Gill is on the finance committee of Montana Stockgrowers; a trustee and finance chairman of the Montana Stockgrowers Research and Education Foundation; a member of the tax and credit committee of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; a director and past chairman of the Montana Council on Economic Education; a director of the Carroll College Athletic Association, and past chairman of the Animal Bio-Science Committee for Montana State University College of Agriculture. He is chair of the Class A Nominating and Governance Committee.
Robert H. Hanson was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith in New York from 1965 to 1989, since 1972 as a Vice President, specializing in providing corporate finance services to the regulated utilities and telecommunications industries. In 1990 he relocated to Cody, Wyoming, where he was employed by Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. as an Account Executive, and later by D.A. Davidson & Co., as Vice President and Office Manager of that firm's Cody office. In 1993 he joined GST Telecommunications, Inc., initially as Senior Vice President-Corporate Development, and subsequently as Chief Financial Officer, retiring from those positions in 1999. Hanson is a past member of the Wyoming Telecommunications Council and current President of the Boys & Girls Club of Park County, Wyoming. In addition, he is a director and trustee of two national conservation organizations, for which he has the responsibility for financial and investment management. Hanson is a graduate of Yale University. He is chair of the Finance Committee, and has been named by the Board of Directors as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts."
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2007
Craig D. Hill was elected a Class B Director in February 2007 and previously served as a Class B Director from 2002 to 2004. He is Vice President of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and has served on its board of directors since 1989. He has served on the boards of Farm Bureau Life from 1989 to 2007, and on the board of Farm Bureau Mutual since 1989. Hill farms 1,000 acres of row crops and has a 200 sow farrow-to-finish hog operation near Milo, Iowa.
Paul E. Larson is the chair of the Audit Committee. He has been named by the Board of Directors as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts." He retired in 1999 as President of Equitable Life of Iowa and its subsidiary, USG Annuity and Life, after 22 years with the companies. Larson holds both a law degree and a certified public accountant designation. He was named Outstanding CPA in Business and Industry by the Iowa Society of CPA's in 1999, and inducted into the American Institute of CPA's Business and Industry Hall of Fame in 2000. He is a member of the board of directors of non-public companies Wellmark, Inc., GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company and GuideOne Specialty Mutual Insurance Company. He was also a board member of EquiTrust Mutual Funds (which is managed by one of our subsidiaries), where he was chair of the Audit Committee and the committee's financial expert. He resigned from the EquiTrust Mutual Funds board upon election to our Board in 2004.
Edward W. Mehrer is currently a member of the board of directors, and the audit and compensation committees of NovaStar International. He served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of CyDex, Inc., a drug delivery company, from late 2002 to mid 2003, and as its Chief Financial Officer from November 1996 to December 2003. Prior to joining CyDex in 1996, Mehrer was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Marion Merrell Dow and a director and member of its executive committee. From 1976 to 1986, Mehrer served as partner-in-charge of audit and accounting for KPMG Peat Marwick in Kansas City, Missouri.
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2007
Keith R. Olsen was elected a Class B Director in May 2007. He previously served as a Class B Director from 2002 to 2004. Olsen was elected President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation in 2002, and has been a member of its board of directors since 1992. He was elected to the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2004. He is also a director of Farm Bureau Life, Farm Bureau Mutual, and Western Ag. In February 2003 he became a director of Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Nebraska. Olsen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics in 1967, and since then has been raising dryland wheat and corn on 3,000 acres in southwest Nebraska. He is also a producer and marketer of certified wheat seed, and was a self employed tax practitioner for a number of years.
Arizona Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2008
Kevin G. Rogers was elected as a Class B Director in February 2008. He is the President of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation. He also serves on the board of American Farm Bureau Federation and its executive committee, the National Cotton Council, the Cotton Board (treasurer) and is on the USDA's Air Quality Task Force. Rogers is also a director of Farm Bureau Life and Farm Bureau Mutual, and President and a director of Western Ag. His family farms 7,000 acres in the Phoenix metropolitan area. They produce cotton, alfalfa, wheat, barley and corn.
John E. Walker is the chair of the Management Development and Compensation Committee. He retired January 1, 1996 from Business Men's Assurance (BMA), Kansas City, Missouri, where he had been the Managing Director of Reinsurance Operations since 1979. He had been a member of the board of directors of BMA for 11 years before his retirement, and a member of its executive committee.
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Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
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Class A Director since 1996 
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Class A Director since 2004 
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Class A Director since 2004 
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