AFBF Exec Named North American Meat Institute CEO

The North American Meat Institute this week named Julie Anna Potts its next president and CEO effective September 24, 2018. Potts succeeds retiring President and CEO Barry Carpenter. Potts has served the American Farm Bureau Federation since 2011 as its executive vice president and treasurer. She first joined AFBF in 2004, serving as general counsel until 2009. In late 2009, she was named chief counsel of the Senate Agriculture Committee, serving under then-Chairman Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas.

The North American Meat Institute is the nation’s oldest and largest trade association representing packers and processors of beef, pork, lamb, veal, turkey and processed meat products. Member companies account for more than 95 percent of United States output of those products. The Meat Institute provides regulatory, scientific, legislative, public relations and educational services to the meat and poultry packing and processing industry.

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