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GFB Women's Leadership Committee Chairmen
Posted on April 3, 2022 8:00 PM
GEORGIA FARM BUREAU WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Chairmen served as an ex-officio member of GFB Board of Directors from December of the first year listed through December of the second. Vice Chairmen were members of the GFB Board of Directors from 1961-1975. Unless noted the women listed were committee chairmen.
CHAIRMAN MEMBERSHIP COUNTY TERM
Geraldine Ray Coffee 1945-52
Mrs. Troy Rucker Cobb 1952-58
Meredith Robinson Screven 1958-66
* Vice Chairmen were members of the GFB Board of Directors from 1961-1975
Mildred Dumas Houston 1961-63
*Vice Chairman 1961-63
Chairman 1978-81
Irene Rape Cason Henry 1963-70
*Vice Chairman 1963-66
Chairman 1966-70
Joyce Ambrose Dooly 1966-67
*Vice Chairman
Marjorie Whitehead Kincaid Oconee 1967-76
*Vice Chairman 1967-70
Chairman 1970-76
Ruth Collins Madison 1970-73
*Vice Chairman
Eloise McCurley, Jr. Madison 1973-78
*Vice Chairman 1973-1976
Chairman 1976-78
Mildred Dumas Houston 1978-81
Bertie Mae McDonald Washington 1981-86
Olivia Gillis Ware 1986-89
Judy Hurst Thomas 1989-91
Dot West Bartow 1991-92
Peggy Smith Turner 1992-93
June White Laurens 1993-95
Shirley Tankersley Irwin 1995-97
Doris Smith Habersham 1997-1998
Corine Sellers Jeff Davis 1998-2000
Peggy Smith Turner 2000-2001
Lou Ellen Peek Thomas 2001-2003
Jeannie Tucker Berrien 2003-2005
Hazel Masters Dougherty 2005-2006
Hazel Masters Dougherty 2006-2007
Kim Brown Macon 2007-2008
Kim Brown Macon 2008-2009
Cathy Barber Bacon 2009-2010
Donna Powell Grady 2010-2011
Linda Crumley Barrow 2011-2012
Nanette Bryan Chattooga 2012-2103
Elaine Avery Laurens 2013-2014
Janet Greuel Fayette 2014-2015
Melanie Sanders Oglethorpe 2015-2016
Rhonda Williams Rabun 2016-2017
Carol McQueen Henry 2017-2018
Nancy Kennedy Hancock 2018-2019
Heather Cabe Franklin 2019-2020
Heather Cabe Franklin 2020-2021*
*Served a second year due to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
Melissa Mathis Monroe 2021-2022