Sanderson Farms Inc. held its annual meeting of stockholders late last week at its home office in Laurel, Mississippi. In the formal business conducted at the meeting, stockholders re-elected four directors to three-year terms expiring at the 2020 annual meeting. Management also reported on the Company’s performance during fiscal 2016. Re-elected to three-year terms were Lampkin Butts, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sanderson Farms, Inc.; Beverly Hogan, President, Tougaloo College; Phil K. Livingston, Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Deposit Guaranty National Bank of Louisiana; and Joe F. Sanderson, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sanderson Farms, Inc.
Other directors, whose terms continue to future years, are: John H. Baker, Fred Banks, Jr., John Bierbusse, Mike Cockrell, Toni D. Cooley, Robert C. Khayat, Dianne Mooney and Gail Jones Pittman.