BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Fiscal Year End 6.30.2021
Chair: Dean Kanipe, McDowell County
Immediate Past Chair: Randy Rogers, Haywood County
First Vice Chair: Jimmy Cowan, District Field Representative of NC Farm Bureau Federation
Second Vice Chair: Karen Hammett, Haywood County
Treasurer: Craig DeBrew, Henderson County
Secretary: Jeffery Owen, Buncombe County
President: K. Ray Bailey, Buncombe County
Vice President: L.T. Ward, Buncombe County
Chivous Bradley, Rutherford County
Lumpy Lambert, GM of Operations for Harrah’s River Valley
Laura Leatherwood, President of Blue Ridge Community College
Bruce Peterson, Buncombe County
Harris Prevost, Vice President of Grandfather Mountain
Zeb Smathers, Mayor of the City of Canton
Jerry Sutton, Macon County
Shelley White, President of Haywood Community College
Roger Wiggins, Fiscal Officer of Southwestern Commission
Bill Yarborough, Haywood County
Ross Young, Director of Madison County Cooperative Extension
LIFETIME BOARD
- W. Louis Bissette Jr., McGuire, Wood & Bissette
- F. Ed Broadwell, Buncombe County
- E. Charles Dyson, Bladen 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
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.
