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Our Leadership

Board of Directors

Janet McCabe

President

Janet has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2011 and has served as President since 2017. McCabe has been a County Farm Bureau Certified Director since 2022.

Gerry Kopping

Vice-President

Gerry Kopping has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2004 and serves Vice-President

Ruth Zeldenrust

Secretary/Treasurer

Ruth Zeldenrust has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2013. Zeldenrust has been a County Farm Bureau Certified Director since 2022 and currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer and Chair of the Audit and Governmental Affairs Committees.

Dan Biernacki

Board Member

Dan Biernacki has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2008 and serves on the Commodities and Marketing Team.

James Bloomstrand

Board Member

James “Jim” Bloomstrand has been a member of the Cook County Board of Directors since 2013.

Roger Freeman

Board Member

Roger Freeman was elected to the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors in 2016 and has been a County Farm Bureau Certified Director since February 2023.

James Gutzmer

Board Member

Our hearts go out to the Gutzmer family as well as the extended Farm Bureau family as we mourn the recent passing of Board Member and past president, Jim Gutzmer.

Pat Horcher

Board Member

Pat Horcher has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 1994.

Todd Price

Board Member

Todd Price has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau Board of Directors since 2018.

Mike Rauch

Board Member

Mike Rauch has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2003 and is the former Vice-President.

Greg Stack

Board Member

Greg Stack has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2022. Stack has became a County Farm Bureau Certified Director in August 2023 and is the Chair of the Ag Literacy Team.

Mark Yunker

Board Member

Mark Yunker has been a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau® Board of Directors since 2001.

CCFB Presidents Through the Decades

H.A. Dooley

1920 - 1920

Gus Termunde

1921 - 1921

Herman Schwake

1922 - 1924

D.A. Nietfeldt

1925 - 1925

Herman Schwake

1926 - 1926

D.A. Nietfeldt

1927 - 1933

H. W. Adair

1934 - 1942

Jacob Ouwenga

1943 - 1946

L.W. Pohlman

1947 - 1951

Charles Erickson

1951 - 1956

Henry Eichholz

1957 - 1970

Leonard Schultz

1970 - 1976

Norman Strassenburg

1976 - 1978

James Goebbert

1978 - 1984

Howard Paarlberg

1984 - 2000

Ray Nykaza

2000 - 2003

Harold Stuenkel

2003 - 2006

James Brandau

2006 - 2010

James Gutzmer

2010 - 2017

Janet McCabe

2017 - Present

CCFB Managers Through the Decades

C.E. Durst

1920 - 1926

Farm Advisor

O.G. Barrett

1926 - 1943

Farm Advisor

C.H. Mills

1934 - 1958

Organization Director

G.W. Blanchard

1958 - 1960

Secretary of Organization

Melvin Hayenga

1960 - 1965

Secretary of Organization

Larry Miller

1965 - 1968

Executive Secretary

Gordon Fox

1968 - 1980

Manager

Alden P. Kilian

1980 - 1999

Manager

Robert A. Rohrer, CAE, FBCM

1999 - Present

Manager

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