BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA — George C. Freeman III of Richmond, Virginia, will turn into Delta Waterfowl’s new chairman of the board on July 1.
Freeman, 61, is a lifelong waterfowl hunter and conservationist who has served on Delta’s board of administrators since 2002, together with the previous three years as vice chairman. He’s the chief government officer of Common Company, a global, publicly traded tobacco firm.
“I believe legacy management is vital for Delta presently,” Freeman mentioned. “My expertise as CEO in public firms has worth to a non-profit. I’m humbled and honored to steer the board of such an unbelievable conservation group centered on what I like—waterfowl. I’m a duck and goose nerd.”
Like many avid waterfowl hunters, Freeman was launched to the wonders of autumn wings over a Decrease Chesapeake Bay wetland early in life, even when his begin was unconventional.
“My father didn’t hunt, and he traveled rather a lot,” Freeman defined. “My neighbor who didn’t have any sons received me began searching. I’d go the library as a child and take a look at each chook e-book that had geese in it, so I knew rather a lot about geese. I received so into it that my dad began leasing searching rights from a cousin for me, and I’ve been searching ever since. I like geese, and it’s simply a part of my love of nature. I like being there within the duck blind when the world wakes up.”
Freeman is a 1989 Yale Regulation Faculty graduate who clerked for 2 distinguished judges, the Hon. Richard S. Arnold and Lewis F. Powell Jr. He then went to work for Common Corp. in 1997. He was promoted to normal counsel in 2001, and continued shifting up by means of administration to turn into president, chairman, and CEO in 2008.
He’s at the moment a director of the American Civil Struggle Heart, Carpenter Co., Youngsters’s Hospital Basis, Tredegar Company and Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, whereas he serves as a trustee of the Virginia Basis for Unbiased Faculties and of the Virginia Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He’s married to Louise Gilbert Freeman, and the couple has two daughters and a son.
“We’re excited to welcome George Freeman because the 22nd chairman of Delta Waterfowl’s Board of Administrators,” mentioned Dr. Scott Petrie, Delta’s chief government officer. “George has unbelievable ardour for waterfowl conservation, which mixed along with his love for Delta Waterfowl and his information and charisma, will be certain that he could have an extremely impactful time period because the Chair of our Board. I look ahead to working carefully with George as we shut out the Million Duck Marketing campaign and make main developments in all 4 of Delta Waterfowl’s programmatic pillars: Duck Manufacturing, Analysis and Schooling, Habitat Conservation, and HunteR3.”
Freeman takes the helm following outgoing chairman Michael H. Mooney, who has led Delta Waterfowl’s Board since 2021. Throughout Mooney’s tenure as chairman, Delta skilled super annual fundraising progress, spectacular elevated program supply, and publicly launched the revolutionary Million Duck Marketing campaign. Delta’s MDC is a daring, $250 million fundraising initiative that guarantees so as to add 1 million geese to each fall flight by means of confirmed duck manufacturing packages comparable to Hen Homes and Predator Administration. As a previous chairman, Mooney will stay on the Board for one more time period.
Freeman plans to construct on Delta’s momentum as a premier conservation group working to provide geese and safe the way forward for waterfowl searching all through North America.
“My objective is to promote the world on lively waterfowl administration, and for different individuals and teams to undertake duck manufacturing packages,” Freeman mentioned. “The last word objective is for lively waterfowl administration to turn into widespread and accepted, which is able to result in extra geese in each fall flight.”
John L. Dunlap of Newmarket, Ontario, has been elected as vice chairman. He’s president of Moffat Dunlap Actual Property and maintains farms and wildlife properties in Ontario, Georgia, and Florida. Dunlap holds an MBA from Northwestern College (Illinois) and bachelor of commerce from Queen’s College (Ontario).
Robert B. Coach Jr. of Houston, Texas, continues as treasurer. Further returning Board members embrace Mooney of Chicago, Illinois; John H. Dobbs Jr. of Memphis, Tennessee; William M. Yandell III of Memphis, Tennessee; Patrick J. Rothwell of Chevy Chase, Maryland; Timothy B. Robertson of Virginia Seaside, Virginia; W. Frank McCreight of Westworth Village, Texas; Robert E. Bartels Jr. of South Bend, Indiana; Charles A. Elcan of Nashville, Tennessee; Angus R. Cooper III of Cell, Alabama; John W. Childs of Vero Seaside, Florida; John S. Dale of Waubay, South Dakota; Rosemary McIlhenny of Nashville, Tennessee; Don Valentine of Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Sprague Richardson of Winnipeg, Manitoba; Tucker Knight of Houston, Texas; Deke Welles of St. Louis, Missouri; and Ariel Grange Somes of Terra Cotta, Ontario. Petrie, of Bismarck, North Dakota, serves on the Board along with his position as Delta’s CEO.
Delta welcomes new Board members Jim Bebo of Orono, Minnesota; Peek Garlington III of Lexington, Kentucky; Geoff Shepstone of Barrington, Illinois; and Greg Twardowski of Frontenac, Missouri.
Delta administrators at giant embrace Tommie Duvavant of Memphis, Tennessee; George R. Eaton of Caledon, Ontario; John A. MacQuarrie of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; John Robinson of Calgary, Alberta; Robert D. Sopuck of Sandy Lake, Manitoba; and William G. Turnbull of Calgary, Alberta.
Delta extends due to Dick Carmical of Monticello, Arkansas, and Benjamin G. Bordelon of Lockport, Louisiana, who’ve fulfilled their Board service.
Delta Waterfowl is The Duck Hunters Group, a number one conservation group working to provide geese and safe the way forward for waterfowl searching in North America. Go to deltawaterfowl.org.
