Neil Hammerschmidt
Biography to come.

Bill Bowman
Bill Bowman serves as the American Angus Association vice president of information and data programs and as the director of performance programs. He oversees development of performance data for Angus Herd Improvement Records, the National Cattle Evaluation, $Value Indexes, and other research and educational efforts. He has helped develop the Angus Beef Record Service and the Bull Listing Service. Bowman received his bachelor’s degree in animal science from the University of Missouri and first joined the Association in 1992 as a regional manager.

Sally Northcutt
Sally Northcutt is the genetic research director at the American Angus Association. She works closely with the Performance Programs Department to coordinate research activities, production reviews, and application of the National Cattle Evaluation and $Value Indexes. Before coming to the Association, Northcutt was a private consultant for individual producers and organizations and was also an associate professor and Extension beef cattle breeding specialist for Oklahoma State University. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Kentucky and earned her doctorate in beef cattle breeding and genetics from Iowa State University.

Ronnie Green
Ronnie Green is the national program leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. As leader of the national research program, Green has overseen 81 projects, 91 scientists, 17 research locations and a $40 million annual budget since he was appointed to the position last year. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of publications since 1990 and has delivered lectures worldwide. He received his bachelor’s degree in animal science and agricultural economics from Virginia Tech, his master’s degree in animal science and beef cattle breeding from Colorado State University, and his doctorate in quantitative genetics and beef cattle breeding from the University of Nebraska.

Jan Lyons
Jan Lyons is the president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. She manages her family’s Angus operation, Lyons Ranch, in the Flint Hills region near Manhattan, Kan., drawing on an extensive embryo transfer program. She has served as president of the Kansas Angus Association, president of the Kansas Livestock Association, and chairwoman of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, and she has served on other national beef industry committees.

Scott Greiner
As an assistant professor and Extension beef specialist at Virginia Tech, Scott Greiner works to develop statewide educational programs to improve the efficiency and profitability of beef cattle production, from the seedstock producer to the processor. Greiner’s research interests focus on genetic improvement programs and involve the application of real-time ultrasound to breeding programs. He also serves as advisor to the Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association. He received his bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University, his master’s from Michigan State University and his doctorate from Iowa State University.

Joe Hampton
Joe Hampton, an American Angus Association Board member, operates Back Creek, a 200-cow operation near Mount Ulla, N.C. The operation focuses on the production of Angus bulls for commercial cattlemen. Back Creek has also collaborated with two other North Carolina operations to form Angus Advantage LLC — a cooperative where breeding decisions, bull development and marketing are joint efforts. Hampton received his bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University and has been involved with agricultural research for 22 years, spending the last 15 years as a research station superintendent. He has served as president of the North Carolina Angus Association and as board director for the North Carolina Cattlemen’s Association.

Harvey Lemmon
Harvey Lemmon owns and operates Lemmon Cattle Enterprises, Woodbury, Ga. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in animal science from Virginia Tech in 1969, Lemmon became herdsman at Millarden Farms in Woodbury. In 1971, Lemmon Cattle Enterprises was formed with the purchase of 113 cows. Today, the operation is home to 600-800 head of Angus seedstock. Lemmon uses artificial insemination and embryo transfer in his program, applying good recordkeeping, tough selection pressure, and analysis of performance data and expected progeny differences.

Lydia Yon
Lydia Yon and her husband, Kevin, own and operate Yon Family Farms near Ridge Spring, S.C. Prior to the formation of their own operation in 1996, the couple managed Congaree Farms in Eastover, S.C., for seven years. Today, they manage 350 Angus cows and 200 commercial cows on 1,400 acres. Yon received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Clemson University and has served as a director of the South Carolina Cattlemen’s Association and as secretary of the South Carolina Angus Association. She also represented the American Angus Association at the 2003 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Young Cattlemen’s Conference.