Awards & Recognition
★World Dairy Expo 2025 Industry Person of the Year
★Award from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for exemplary leadership and decades of service (2023)
★Recognition for decades of service to U.S. dairy community
Notable Facts
→Retired as CEO/President of National Milk Producers Federation after 10 years leading organization (2013-2023)
→45-year career in U.S. agricultural and dairy policy
→Former chief of staff to Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl
→Partner at international communications firm Fleishman-Hillard
→Guided NMPF through two farm bills and COVID-19 crisis
→Native of Wisconsin from working-class family of nine
→Spearheaded federal milk marketing order reform efforts