Darneille Elected NCC Chairman for 2014
February 11, 2014 Wallace Darneille, a Lubbock, TX, cooperative marketer, was elected National Cotton Council chairman for 2014 during the NCC’s annual meeting held in Washington, DC.
Darneille, president and chief executive officer of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, succeeds Jimmy Dodson, a Robstown, TX, cotton producer as chairman.
Darneille has a long record of outstanding service to the NCC and to the U.S. and global cotton industries. He served this past year as NCC vice chairman and was the chairman of Cotton Council International (CCI) in 2011, after serving as its president in 2010. He also served as chairman of the National Council of Textile Organizations in 2009-2010, and was president of the Liverpool, England-based International Cotton Association in 2007.
He has also served as president of the Texas Cotton Association, as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and as a board member of CCI, the American Cotton Shippers Association, the Texas Agricultural Coop Council, Telmark, Denimatrix and The Seam.
Other officers elected to serve the NCC in the coming year were:
Vice Chairman – Sledge Taylor, Como, MS
Secretary-Treasurer – Clyde Sharp, Roll, AZ
Vice President – Joe Nicosia, Cordova, TN
Vice President (Warehousers) – Coalter Paxton, III, Wilson, NC
Vice President (Cooperatives) – Meredith Allen, Greenwood, MS
Vice President (Ginners) – Sid Brough, Edroy, TX
Vice President (Cottonseed) – John Fricke, Pine Bluff, AR
Vice President (Textile Manufacturers) – Anderson Warlick, Gastonia, NC.
NCC staff officers include:
Dr. Mark Lange, NCC president and chief executive officer
John Maguire, senior vice president, Washington Operations
Dr. Gary Adams, vice president, Economics and Policy Analysis
Craig Brown, vice president, Producer Affairs
Dr. Bill Norman, vice president, Technical Services
Harrison Ashley, vice president, Ginner Services
Kevin Latner, vice president, Foreign Operations
Fred Johnson, vice president, Administration and Program Coordination.
Source – National Cotton Council
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