SNA Elects New Board

The Southern Nursery Association (SNA) announced its 2018 board of directors and officers who were elected during the 119th Annual SNA Business Meeting  at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, during the SNA Conference.

“This 2018 board represents a group of diverse industry leaders, all with excellent business skills that can be leveraged to the advantage of the SNA,” said Karen Summers, SNA executive vice president. “As a regional association we have the ability to look around the region for members that have demonstrated strong leadership skills at the state level and select from these industry leaders to guide our association. I am very confident that through the leadership of this group of gentlemen we will become stronger and move the association forward,” she added.

The election, open to all active SNA members, determines representation from the four geographic regions of the association:

Chapter 1 – Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia
Chapter 2 – Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
Chapter 3 – Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee
Chapter 4 – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas

Norman Cole, III, Cole Nursery, Pipestem, West Virginia, was elected president succeeding Dusty Knight, Plantation Trees, Selma, Alabama.

The complete slate of 2018 officers and directors is as follows:

President — Norman Cole, III, Cole Nurseries, Pipestem, West Virginia

Vice President/Treasurer/Director Chapter 2  —  Joseph Napoli, Athens Wholesale Nursery, Athens, Georgia

Director Chapter 3 — Rickey Minton, Triangle Nursery, McMinnville, Tennessee

Director Chapter 4 — Todd Ellefson, Windmill Nursery, Franklinton, Louisiana

Director Chapter 1 — Matthew Shreckhise, Shreckhise Nurseries, Grottoes, Virginia

For more information on SNA, cr visit the SNA website at www.sna.org.