Dan Kelley, Chairman of the Board and
President
Daniel T. Kelley became chairman of the board and
president of GROWMARK, Inc. September 1, 2000. He operates a
grain farm near Normal, Illinois in partnership with his two
brothers.
He 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 from 1985 to 2008. Kelley
began serving on the Illinois State University Alumni Board
of Directors in 2002 and currently serves as president. 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, Columbus,
Ohio, in April 2006. Dan was elected to the CoBank Board of
Directors, Denver, Colorado, in January 2004 and was elected
first vice chairman in 2007 and 2008. He has served as
chairman of the CoBank Budget/Finance Committee, and is
currently a member of the Executive and Compensation
Committees.
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 and now serves as a director and vice chairman of
the IALF. 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. Most recently he has served as co-chairman of the NCFC
2007 Farm Bill Policy Task Force Committee.
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.
