Winters Named Interim Head of PCCA
February 20, 2015 The Board of Directors of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) has appointed Lonnie Winters as interim president and chief executive officer effective March 1, upon the retirement of Wally Darneille.
The announcement was made by PCCA Chairman Eddie Smith during the cooperative’s monthly Delegate Body meeting.
“Lonnie Winters has spent his entire career in the cotton business, and he is highly respected in the cotton industry and among agricultural cooperatives,” Smith said. “He is a strong, coop-minded leader, and PCCA will be in good hands while our board conducts its search for a new president and CEO.”
Winters joined the PCCA marketing staff in 1993 and was promoted to vice president of marketing in 2004. He previously worked for Hohenberg Cotton, now a division of Cargill, and for W.R. Moore Cotton Company. He also managed Granite Farmers Coop Gin and farmed in Oklahoma.
Winters is a past president of the Lubbock Cotton Exchange and currently serves on the board of directors of The Seam, an internet-based cotton marketing system that is co-owned by PCCA.
Founded in 1953, PCCA is a farmer-owned cotton marketing and warehousing cooperative serving approximately 15,000 members in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico. It is one of the largest suppliers of U.S. cotton to textile mills around the world.
Source – PCCA
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