Tom Thompson
Tom Thompson
2008
★Graduate Putnam County High School, Class of 1953
★Graduate Emory University School of Business, Class of 1957, BBA Finance/Accounting
• President, Emory Men’s Glee Club
• President, Society for Advancement of Management
• Member, Barkley Forum Debating Team
• Member, Phi Delta Theta fraternity
★U S Air Force 1957-1962 (Active duty and active reserve/Called back to active duty w/Cuban Missile Crisis
★Formed Tom Thompson Co, Dairy Equipment, 1959
★Formed Tom Thompson Dairy, 1960
• General Partner, Eatonton Dairy Farms, LLLP 1998-present
★Georgia Milk Producers, Board of Directors, 1965-2008
• President, 1997-2008 (retired February 2008)
★Atlanta Dairies, Board of Directors 1968-1986.
• Awarded Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Best Divestiture of Year, 1986”
• President, Atlanta Dairies’successor: Associated Dairy Farmers, 1986-1991
★Carolina-Virginia Milk Producers, Board of Directors, 1992-2001
★Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers, Board of Directors, 2002-2006
• In top 20 corporations, Washington, DC area ($1 billion sales, 800 employees)
• Chairman of Audit Committee
★National Milk Producers Federation, Washington, D.C., Board of Directors 1990-2006
• One of two directors from the South
★Gatewood Schools, Founding Member Board of Directors
• Treasurer 1970-1973
• Chairman of Board, 1974-1985
★First Baptist Church, Eatonton
• Former Chairman, Board of Deacons
• Building Committee Chairman, rebuilding of church destroyed by arsonists, 1978
★Tri County Electric Member Cooperative, 16,000 + member/consumers
• Board of Directors 1985-present
• Chairman of Board, 1986-present
★Married to former Pamela MacLeod. They have 7 grown children.
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