FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 4, 2003
Contact Rusty Cheuvront or Mary Gabbard (502) 564-2611

Governor Announces Appointments

Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors

Billy Ray Smith, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Frankfort, ex officio.

Gordon Duke, Secretary, Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet, Frankfort, ex officio.

Douglas E. Lawson, Paducah, representing commercial lending officers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2003.

Billy Joe Miles, Owensboro, representing tobacco farmers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2003.

Bob D. Proffitt, Crestwood, representing horticultural producers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2004.

Billy G. Hurd, Monticello, representing livestock farmers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2005.

Sandy Ross, Glasgow, representing commercial lending officers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2005.

Dr. Harold Benson, Director, Land Grant Administration, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2005.

Annette Crawford Walters, Mays Lick, representing former farm credit association officers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2005.

Charles Miller, Nicholasville, representing livestock farmers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2005.

Jane H. Jones, Bowling Green, representing farm credit association officers, to serve for a term expiring June 26, 2006.

Wayne Hunt, Herndon, representing cash grain farmers, to serve for a term expiring February 4, 2007.

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