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Nancy C. Pellett
Board Member

Nancy C. Pellett was appointed to a six-year term on the FCA Board by President George W. Bush on November 26, 2002. She served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of FCA from May 2004 until May 2008.

Ms. Pellett also serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation, which is responsible for ensuring the timely payment of principal and interest on obligations issued on behalf of FCS banks.

Ms. Pellett brings to her position on the FCA Board extensive experience in production agriculture and agribusiness. In partnership with her husband, she managed Prairie Hills, Ltd., a feedlot, cow-calf, and row-crop operation in Atlantic, Iowa, from 1966 until her appointment to the Board. While she serves her term as FCA Chairman and CEO, her husband, son, and daughter-in-law continue to operate this fifth-generation family farm.

For more than 20 years, she also served as president and treasurer of Fredrechsen Farms, Ltd., a family-owned swine and row-crop operation in Walnut, Iowa.

A long-time beef industry leader, Ms. Pellett held State and national leadership positions in cattle industry organizations. As a member of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, she served as chairman of the Check-Off Division, as chairman of the Consumer Marketing Group, and most recently as a member of the Cattlemen's Beef Board. She also was president of the Iowa Beef Industry Council.

She is a partner in Premium Quality Foods, Inc., which markets precooked beef entrees. Previously, she served as president and consumer marketing director for the company.

Ms. Pellett served a six-year term as a member of the Board of Regents for the State of Iowa, which oversees the three State universities as well as the University of Iowa Hospital and its affiliated clinics. She was also selected as a member of the Governor's Student Aid Commission.

Dedicated to the future of agriculture, Ms. Pellett worked with 4-H at the local and State levels and served on the Iowa 4-H Foundation board. She is a founding member of the 4-H/FFA "Sale of Champions" committee for the Iowa State Fair.

Ms. Pellett is on the Iowa State University Foundation Board of Governors and was a member of the advisory committees for the College of Agriculture and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. She is past president of the university’s Alumni Association and was awarded the Alumni Medal in 1987. The Pellett family was honored as the "Family of the Year" by the university in 1997.

The Pellett family also received the "Friends of Youth Award" in 2000 from the Knights of AkSarBen, a foundation that supports education, youth programs, and rural development in Nebraska and western Iowa.

A native of Walnut, Iowa, Ms. Pellett holds a B.S. from Iowa State University at Ames. She and her husband have four children.