Wallace Darneille, a Lubbock, TX, cooperative marketer, was elected as the Chairman of National Cotton Council for 2014 during the National Cotton Council’s (NCC) annual meeting held in Washington. Darneille, President and CEO of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, succeeds Jimmy Dodson, a Robstown, TX, cotton producer as Chairman.

Darneille has a long record of outstanding service to the NCC and to the US and global cotton industries. This past year, he served as NCC Vice Chairman and was the Chairman of Cotton Council International (CCI) in 2011, after serving as its President in 2010. He also served as Chairman of the National Council of Textile Organizations in 2009-2010, and was President of the Liverpool, England-based International Cotton Association in 2007.

Previously, he was President of the Texas Cotton Association, as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and as a board member of CCI, the American Cotton Shippers Association, the Texas Agricultural Coop Council, Telmark, Denimatrix and The Seam.

Other office bearers elected to serve the NCC in the coming year include: Sledge Taylor, Como, MS as Vice Chairman, Clyde Sharp, Roll, AZ as Secretary-Treasurer, Joe Nicosia, Cordova, TN as Vice President, Coalter Paxton, III, Wilson, NC as Vice President (Warehousers), Meredith Allen, Greenwood, MS as Vice President (Cooperatives), Sid Brough, Edroy, TX as Vice President (Ginners), John Fricke, Pine Bluff, AR as Vice President (Cottonseed) and Anderson Warlick, Gastonia, NC as Vice President (Textile Manufacturers).

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