Trowbridge, the new president and chairman, most recently served as vice president and vice chairman of the board. He received his animal science degree from Alfred Sate College prior to becoming herdsman at Gallagher’s Angus Farm, where he continues to enhance genetics with Trowbridge Angus. Trowbridge has served on numerous boards on the local and state level and organized the Columbia County Feeders 4-H club.

Stucky, who was formerly board treasurer, was chosen by delegates to serve as vice president and vice chairman. Stucky and his family own Stucky Ranch, west of Wichita, Kansas. He is past director and president of the Kansas Angus Association and chairman of its commercial female sale. He has also been active in Beef Improvement Federation, his local Extension council, the Kansas Farm Bureau and the Kansas Livestock Association.

Watkins, elected as the new board treasurer, and husband, Bob, raise Angus cattle at Beaver Ridge Farm in Indiana. She has a degree in animal science from Michigan State University, where she was a member of the meat judging team and the livestock judging team. Off the farm, Watkins worked for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for 33 years, retiring in 2007. She served as secretary for the Indiana Angus Association for 10 years.

The newly elected board directors, who will serve three-year terms, are:

• Charlie Boyd II of Boyd Beef Cattle, Mayslick, Kentucky
• Scott Foster, who worked for Premier Beef and currently farms with his family in southwestern Michigan
• Philip Howell, who has served as president of the Indiana Junior Angus Association, Indiana Angus Association and the Southeastern Indiana Angus Association
• Vaughn Meyer of Sodak Angus Ranch, South Dakota
• Don Schiefelbein, who has served as executive director for the American Gelbvieh Association and currently resides at his family Angus farm in Kimball, Minnesota

More than 311 elected delegates from 41 states, Canada and the District of Columbia represented association members during the Annual Meeting of Delegates, held at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in conjunction with the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) Super-Point Roll of Victory Angus Show. 

—From American Angus Association news release