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2025-2026 SAAS OFFICERS
 

Executive Committee

President - Deceau Fields, University of Arkansas
President-Elect - Keith Carver, University of Tennessee
Member-at-Large – John Green, Mississippi State University
Secretary/Treasurer – Mark Legendre, LSU AgCenter
Past President – Keith Coble, Mississippi State University

Administrative Heads of Agriculture

Chair - Deceau Fields, University of Arkansas
Chair-Elect - Keith Carver, University of Tennessee
Secretary - Olga Bolden-Tiller, Tuskegee University
Executive Director - Eric Young, S-AHS, North Carolina State University
Past Chair - Keith Coble, Mississippi State

Agricultural Communications

President - Lacey Roberts-Hill, New Mexico State University
Vice President & Program Chair - Katie Sanders, North Carolina State University
Secretary - Joy Rumble, Oklahoma State University
Executive Treasurer - Ricky Telg, University of Florida
Past President - Audrey King, Oklahoma State University

Agricultural Economics

President - Andrew Muhammad, University the Tennessee
Secretary – Nathan Smith, Clemson University
Treasurer – Jeffrey Jordan, University of Georgia
Past President – John Anderson, University of Arkansas

Agricultural Education

President - Misty Lambert, North Carolina State University
Vice President - Eric Kaufman, Virginia Tech
Secretary - Shelli Rampold, University of Tennessee
Past President - Stacy K. Vincent, University of Kentucky

Agronomy

President - Jagmandeep Singh Dhillon, Mississippi State University
Vice President & Program Chair - Michael Maw, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Secretary/Treasurer - David Spencer
Past President – Trent J. Irby, Mississippi State University

Biochemistry & Biotechnology

President & Program Chair– Jeffrey O. Boles, Tennessee Technology University

Horticultural Science

President - Sarah White, Clemson University
President-Elect - Jeb Fields, University of Florida
Secretary/Treasurer/Program Chair - Cheryl Boyer, Kansas State University
Past President - Christine Coker, Louisiana State University

Research Center Administrators Society

President - Jim Boyer, University of Florida
Vice President - Rusty Collins, North Carolina
Secretary - Jarrod Jones, Auburn University
Treasurer - Buck Nelson, University of Florida
Past President - Sherry Surrette, Mississippi State University

Rural Sociology

President: - Russ J. Garner, Mississippi State University
President Elect - Kara Woods, Alcorn State University
Program Chair - Ryan Thomson, Auburn University
Program Chair Elect - Kelli Russell, Auburn University
Secretary-Treasurer - Robert Zabawa,Tuskegee University
Past President - Marcus Bernard, Kentucky State University