Dan Kelley, Chairman of the Board and
President
Daniel
T. Kelley is chairman of the board and president of
GROWMARK, Inc., a position he has held since September 1,
2000. He operates a grain farm near Normal, Illinois in
partnership with his two brothers.
Kelley was elected to the GROWMARK Board in 1995 and served
as one of two vice-chairmen from 1998 to 2000. Kelley has
been a director of Evergreen FS, Inc., Bloomington,
Illinois, since 1977, serving as president since 1985.
Kelley began serving on the Illinois State University Alumni
Board of Directors in 2002. He has served as a director of
Farmland Mutual Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa, since
May of 2003, and was elected to the Nationwide Board of
Directors in April 2006. Dan was elected to the CoBank Board
of Directors in January 2004 and was elected first vice
chairman for the 2007 year. He has served as chairman of the
CoBank Budget/Finance Committee and is currently a member of
the Governance, Executive, and Loan Review Committees. Dan
currently serves as co-chairman of the National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives 2007 Farm Bill Policy Task Force
Committee.
He was a board member of AgriBank FCB, St. Paul, Minnesota,
from 1989 to 1996 and served as chairman from 1991-94. He
chaired the merger steering committee forming AgriBank FCB
in May 1992. Kelley also has served on the board of 1st Farm
Credit Services, Bloomington, Illinois.
He was a member of the McLean County Chamber of Commerce Ag
Council and served as the organization’s co-chairman for ten
years. In 1990 he earned the Cooperative Leadership Award
from the Illinois Cooperative Coordinating Committee. In
1992, Kelley received the Outstanding Service to Agriculture
Award from the Bloomington-Normal Ag Club. He is a 1984
graduate of the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation
Program (IALF) and now serves as a director and vice
chairman for the organization. Dan was chosen Director of
the Year for his outstanding leadership abilities by the
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives at their annual
meeting in January, 2002.
Kelley is a 1970 graduate of Illinois State University with
a bachelor’s degree in agriculture. He is active in his
church. Dan and his wife, Pam, have two daughters and a son,
and seven grandchildren.
