ELDON J. WHITE
Executive Vice President/CEO

      Eldon J. White was named executive vice president and chief executive officer of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association in March 2007.
      Previously, he was executive vice president of the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) based in Overland Park, Kansas, a position he held for 16 years. He has 29 years of agriculture related association management experience.
      Eldon was raised on a stocker operation outside of Ogden, Utah. His dad was an cattle order-buyer and the family ranch also bred registered Quarter Horses.
      Eldon earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Utah State University. He has a B.S. in animal science with minors in agriculture business and international agriculture and an M.S. in agricultural economics.
      His first job after graduation was working as a county agent specializing in 4-H and livestock. From there he went to the National Cattlemen’s Association (now the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association) in Denver as director of marketing and transportation programs.
      Eldon left NCA in 1983 to become director of producer services for the American Sheep Producers Council. In 1989, the group merged with the National Wool Growers Association to become the American Sheep Industry Association. Eldon was named vice president for policy and government affairs and chief operating officer. He served in that position until 1991 when he joined NAMA.
      Eldon and his wife Val make their home in Fort Worth. They have two married daughters, Kristen, and Kelly.

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