The council gratefully acknowledges the support of the Golden Leaf Foundation

North Carolina Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council

Council Members

Name	Position	Appointed By	Term	Pos. No.
Commissioner Steve Troxler	Commissioner of Agriculture or the Commissioner's designee	Ex officio		1
Dr. Laura Gerald	State Health Director or the Director's designee	Ex officio		2
Secretary Sharon Allred Decker	Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary's designee	Ex officio		3
Mr. Russ Vollmer	Local organic food producer, organic crop producer	House Speaker	7/1/2015	4
Mr. Bob Pike	Local organic food producers, organic animal producer	House Speaker	7/1/2015	4
Mr. Randall Patterson	Conventinal food producer, crop producer	Commissioner	7/1/2015	5
Mr. Brandon Moore	Conventional food producer, animal producer	Commissioner	7/1/2015	5
Mr. Mac Baldwin	Sustainable animal producer	Commissioner	7/1/2015	6
Ms. Jane Iseley	Sustainable crop producer	Commissioner	7/1/2015	6
Mr. Willy Phillips	Representative of commercial fishing industry	Pro Tempore	7/1/2012	7
Mr. Phil Hudson	Representative of the NC State Grange	House Speaker	7/1/2015	8
Ms. Debbie Hamrick	Representative from the NC Farm Bureau Federation, Inc	House Speaker	7/1/2013	9
Mr. Barry Nash	Representative of the Sea Grant College program	Pro Tempore	7/1/2013	10
Mr. Roland McReynolds, Esq.	Representative of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association	Governor	7/1/2013	11
Dr. Nancy Creamer	Representative of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems	Governor	7/1/2013	12
Ms. Savonala Horne	Representative of the NC Association of Black Lawyers' Land Loss Prevention Project	Commissioner	7/1/2013	13
Mr. Charlie Jackson	Representative of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project	Pro Tempore	7/1/2013	14
Mr. Mac Legerton	Representative of the Center of Community Action, Inc.	Commissioner	7/1/2013	15
Mr. John Day	Representative of the NC Association of County Commissioners	Pro Tempore	7/1/2013	16
Dr. Lynn Harvey	Representative of the Department of Public Instruction, Child Nutrition Services Section	Pro Tempore	7/1/2014	17
Dr. Joe Zublena	Representative of the NC Cooperative Extension Service, jointly administered by NCSU and NC Agricul	Governor	7/1/2014	18
Dr. Alice Ammerman	Representative of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease prevention at the University of NC at Chapel Hill	Pro Tempore	7/1/2014	19
Ms. Earline Middleton	Representative of a food bank located in NC	Governor	7/1/2014	20
Ms. Andrea Reusing	Representative of the food retail or food service industry	Governor	7/1/2014	21
Ms. Margaret Newbold	Representative of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina	House Speaker	7/1/2014	22
Mr. Billy Ray Hall	Representative of the NC Rural Economic Development Center, Inc.	House Speaker	7/1/2014	23
Mr. Uli Bennewitz	Representative of a business engaged in the processing, packing, or distribution of food	House Speaker	7/1/2014	24