Company: AGM-PH
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000845877-25-000143
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Company: FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 in Topeka, Kansas with a degree in Communications.

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| PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS |

| Directors Appointed by the President of the United States |

LAJUANA S. WILCHER, 70, has been a member of the Board of Directors of Farmer Mac since December 20, 2019, and has served as Board Vice Chair since March 2022. She previously served as Board Chair from January 2020 to March 2022. Ms. Wilcher serves as the acting chair of the Enterprise Risk Committee, the vice chair of the Corporate Governance Committee, and as a member of the Public Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. Ms. Wilcher has owned and operated Scuffle Hill Farm in Alvaton, Kentucky since 2005, where she boards horses and grows and square bales orchard grass and fescue hay. She serves on the board of the Warren County Conservation District and is a Certified Crop Advisor, a Master Grazer, and a Master Cattleman. Ms. Wilcher has also been a partner at the law firm English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP since 2006, where she represents clients on complex environmental permitting, enforcement, and regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Wilcher’s extensive experience as a leader and manager of large federal and state government agencies includes stints at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She was confirmed by the United States Senate in 1989 to be the Assistant Administrator of Water for EPA, where she served until 1993. Ms. Wilcher also served as the Cabinet Secretary of Kentucky’s Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet from 2003 to 2006, which included Kentucky’s banking, securities, and insurance regulatory agencies, among other things. She currently serves as the chair of the Energy and Environmental Policy Council for the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Wilcher received a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Kentucky University and a J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University. Ms. Wilcher has also attained the CERT Cybersecurity Oversight Certification for Directors.

Besides the affiliations described above, the Nominees and Appointed Members are active in many local and national trade, commodity, charitable, educational, and religious organizations.

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| Qualifications, Attributes, Skills, and Experience To Be Represent