Craig D. Hill is the chairman of the board, and chair of the Executive Committee. He served as a Class B Director from 2002-2004 and from 2007-2011.
Hill has been a director of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation since 1989 and was its vice president for ten years beginning in 2001. He serves on the boards of Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Western Agricultural Insurance Company and Rain & Hail LLC and previously served on the board of Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company. In December 2011 he was elected president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Hill has a grain and livestock operation on 1,000 acres near Milo, Iowa.
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 Property & Casualty, and a director of Farm Bureau Life, EquiTrust Life, Western Ag and FB BanCorp. 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 bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Washburn University and Chapman College, respectively.
Roger K. Brooks was named 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 Management Development and Compensation Committee. 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 The Weitz Company.
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 Management Development and Compensation Committee.
Robert H. Hanson served as 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."
James E. (Jim) Hohmann was named chief executive officer of FBL Financial Group in January 2010. He has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry.
Prior to FBL, Hohmann was President and CEO of Allstate Financial with executive accountabilities for 15 Allstate affiliates including Allstate Life Insurance Company, Allstate Bank, Allstate Workplace and Allstate Institutional Markets. Prior to that, Hohmann was President and Chief Operating Officer at Conseco, Inc.; President and CEO of XL Life and Annuity; and President, Financial Institutions, for Zurich Kemper Life. Hohmann also worked for nearly 13 years for business consulting practices: Tillinghast/Towers Perrin where he was Managing Principal of the Chicago Life operations, and KPMG Peat Marwick.
A Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, Hohmann began his career as a life insurance actuary. Hohmann has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago, graduating with high honors. Hohmann is a member of the board of governors of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, is on the American Agricultural Insurance Company advisory committee, and is a former board member of the American Council of Life Insurers. He also serves on the boards of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, Bankers Trust and OMNI Youth Services in Chicago.
Paul E. Larson serves on the Audit Committee and the Class A Nominating and Governance 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 the FBL Financial Group board in 2004.
Edward W. Mehrer is the chair of the Audit Commitee. He 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. The board of directors has named him as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts."
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2012
Dennis J. Presnall is executive director and secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Farm Buruea Federation and senior vice president-secretary of Farm Bureau Life and Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company. He joined the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation in 1982 and assumed his current position in 2007. He was chairman of the Iowa High School Athletic Association board of control. He is currently a member of the board of directors for Valley Bank and chairman of the Board of Ambassadors for Coaches vs. Cancer.
Arizona Farm Bureau Federation Class B Director since 2008
Kevin G. Rogers has served as Class B Director since February 2008. He has been president of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation since 2003. Rogers is also a director of Farm Bureau Life and Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company, as well as Western Agricultural Insurance Companies and the Farm Bureau Mutual Holding Company. He is a board member of Farm Bureau Bank. Rogers is an officer of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association and serves on the National Cotton Council, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cotton Board on the USDA Air Quality Task Force. He served on the American Farm Bureau Board of Directors and on its five-member executive committee for six years (2005-2010). His family farms more than 7,000 acres in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
South Dakota Farm Bureau Federation Elected 2011 Class B Director since 2011
Scott E. VanderWal was elected a Class B Director in May 2011. Mr. VanderWal has been president of the South Dakota Farm Bureau Federation since 2004, and a member of its board of directors since 1997. He is also a member of the boards of directors of Farm Bureau Property & Casualty (since 2004), Farm Bureau Life (since 2004), Western Ag (since 2006), Farm Bureau Bank (since 2004) and American Farm Bureau Federation (since 2006), and a member of a number of American Farm Bureau task forces. Mr. VanderWal received a bachelor's degree in General Agriculture from South Dakota State University in 1985. His family farm operation near Volga, SD includes corn, soybeans, custom cattle feeding and custom harvesting.
John E. Walker is the chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and is a member 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. Mr. Walker was a director of LabOne, Inc., a publicly traded testing laboratory, and its predecessor, for nearly 20 years until the company was acquired by merger in late 2005. He serves on a variety of nonprofit community boards.
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