National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern announced Tuesday that he will retire at the end of this year.
Mulhern will conclude a decade of service leading the organization and capping a 45-year career in U.S. agricultural and dairy policy.
Mulhern says, "Directing the policy efforts of the nation's dairy farmers and their cooperatives has been the highlight of my professional career."
Mulhern began as President and CEO in 2013 and guided NMPF through two completed farm bills, the COVID-19 crisis, and an ever-quickening pace of change in the industry.
After coming to Washington to work on Capitol Hill in 1982, he began his first stint with NMPF in 1985, directing the organization's government affairs activities and shaping NMPF's strategy in the face of earlier farm crises.
The topic of naming a new top executive at NMPF will be discussed at NMPF’s Board Meeting this week in Arlington, VA.
- NAFB