Holladay Elected 2023 National Cotton Council Chairman
February 19, 2023 
NCC Chairman Shawn Holladay (Photo: NCC)
Shawn Holladay, cotton producer from the Lubbock, TX area, was elected National Cotton Council (NCC) chairman for 2023 during the organization’s annual meeting in Dallas, TX.
Joe Nicosia, merchant based in Cordova, TN, will serve as NCC vice chairman for 2023.
Holladay has served in many NCC roles including as a director and as its vice chairman in 2022. He served on multiple NCC committees including chairing its Farm Policy & Economic Policy and its Budget committees. He was chairman of the NCC’s American Cotton Producers in 2018 and 2019, and previously served for several years as the ACP’s Farm Policy Task Force chairman, proving to be a tireless advocate for sound farm policy development.
Holladay also was a key asset in the creation and implementation of the seed cotton program for U.S. cotton producers and was a member of trade delegations to China and South America coordinated by Cotton Council International, the NCC’s export promotions arm.
A former Plains Cotton Growers Association chairman and Lamesa Cotton Growers president, Holladay is a fourth-generation producer who – along with his wife, Julie, and daughter, Katy – owns and operates a cotton farming operation in West Texas’ Dawson and Martin counties. He is also a partner in United Gin Corporation, located near Lamesa.
Holladay was named the 2018 Texas Tech University Gerald W. Thomas Outstanding Agriculturalist in Agricultural Production. He also received the 2017 Cotton Achievement Award from Cotton Grower magazine and was a 2012 recipient of the High Cotton Award – a program sponsored by Farm Progress through a grant to the Cotton Foundation that recognizes conservation and environmental stewardship.
Other 2023 Officers
Each year’s NCC officers represent the seven segments of the U.S. cotton industry.
Elected as NCC vice presidents were Hank N. Reichle, Jr., cooperative official from Greenwood, MS, and Raymond Faus, merchant from Richardson, TX.
Re-elected as NCC vice presidents were Sammy Wright, cottonseed processor from Tifton, GA; Robin Perkins, textile manufacturer from Sanford, NC; Kirk Gilkey, ginner from a Corcoran, CA; and Jay Cowart, warehouser from Altus, OK.
Mark McKean, producer from Riverside, CA, was re-elected as secretary-treasurer.
Re-elected as NCC staff officers were:
- Gary Adams, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Marjory Walker, Vice President, Operations
- Jody Campiche, Vice President, Economics and Policy Analysis
- John Gibson, Vice President, Member Services
- Don Parker, Vice President, Technical Services
- Tas Smith, Vice President, Producer Affairs
- Harrison Ashley, Vice President, Ginner Services
- Robbie Minnich, Vice President, Washington Operations.
Based on information provided by the National Cotton Council
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