Tammy Doughty, David Quam and Elizabeth Dressler have been appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to serve on the American Lamb Board. Each appointee will serve a three-year term, effective January 2015.

The Board is composed of six producers, three feeders, one seedstock producer and three first handlers. The Secretary of Agriculture appoints one third of all board members each year.

Tammy Doughty from Reform, Alabama has been appointed to represent feeders. Doughty has been engaged in the sheep business for 12 years and is a member of the National Lamb Feeders Association and the American Sheep Industry’s Young Sheep Entrepreneurs Committee.

David Quam from San Angelo, Texas has been appointed to represent producers. Quam has been involved in the sheep industry for over 43 years and is currently the Sheep Order Buyer at Producers Livestock Auction Company. Quam has been involved in the National Lamb Feeders Association and has served as the Director of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Lamb Committee.

Elizabeth Dressler from Parker, Colorado has been appointed to represent first handlers. Dressler has been engaged in the sheep industry for 6 years as the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Mountain States Rosen. Dressler is an active member of the American Sheep Industry Association’s Young Sheep Entrepreneur Committee and serves on the Lamb Industry Roadmap’s Product Characteristics team.

The Secretary of Agriculture also reappointed Joanne Nissen of, Soledad, California, representing producers and Wes Patton of, Orland, California representing seedstock producers. Nissen and Patton will be serving their second three year term.

“I look forward to working with the three new Board Members and I am thrilled to see Joanne and Wes continuing on the Board,” said ALB Chairman Dan Lippert. “I also want to recognize and thank retiring Board Members Cody Hiemke, Leo Tammi, Antonio Manzanares and Ben Lehfeldt whose hard work, dedication and innovation has been instrumental in designing programs and strategies that will be key to our continued success.”