BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Fiscal Year End 6.30.2020
Chair: Randy Rogers, Haywood County
Immediate Past Chair: Roger Wiggins, Fiscal Officer of Southwestern Commission
First Vice Chair: Dean Kanipe, McDowell County
Second Vice Chair: Jimmy Cowan, District Field Representative of NC Farm Bureau Federation
Treasurer: Karen Hammett, Haywood County
Secretary: Jeffery Owen, Buncombe County
President: K. Ray Bailey, Buncombe County
Vice President: L.T. Ward, Buncombe County
- Chivous Bradley, Rutherford County
- Craig DeBrew, Henderson County
- Lumpy Lambert, GM of Operations for Harrah’s River Valley
- Bruce Peterson, Buncombe County
- Harris Prevost, Vice President of Grandfather Mountain
- Jerry Sutton, Macon County
- Bill Yarborough, Regional Agronomist & Special Assistant to NC Commissioner of Agriculture
- Ross Young, Madison County
LIFETIME BOARD
- W. Louis Bissette Jr., McGuire, Wood & Bissette
- F. Ed Broadwell, Buncombe County
- George H. V. Cecil, Chairman of Biltmore Farms Inc.
- E. Charles Dyson, Bladen County
- Linda B. Ford, Buncombe County
- Jacob F. Grigg, Madison County
- Sam H. McGuirt Jr., Henderson County
- Albert Plemmons, Transylvania County
- Richard B. Wynne, Henderson County
STAFF
Executive Director and WNC AgOptions Coordinator: Jennifer Ferre
Director of Community and Agricultural Programs: Terri Wells
Director of Hemlock Restoration Initiative: Margot Wallston
Accounting: Amy Tipps
Ag Specialist: Mike Ford
In Memory…
WNC Communities has been fortunate to have great leadership through the years in two of our region’s finest, Morris L. “Mac” McGough and Patricia Brinkley Shulimson. Please see their dedication pages to learn how we continue to honor their lives and contributions to our mountain home.