BULLETIN NO.:  MGR-95-045

TO:         All Reinsured Companies
            FSA Headquarters, Program Delivery and Field Operations
            All Risk Management Field Offices

FROM:       Kenneth D. Ackerman
            Deputy Administrator

SUBJECT:    FCIC Board of Directors

BACKGROUND:

The Federal Crop Insurance Act requires the management of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Corporation (FCIC) to be vested in a Board of Directors.  The Board 
consists of the Manager of the Corporation, the Under Secretary of Agriculture 
responsible for the Federal crop insurance program, one additional Under 
Secretary of Agriculture, one person experienced in the crop insurance 
business who is not otherwise employed by the Federal government, and three 
active farmers who are not otherwise employed by the Federal government. The 
three active farmers are to be policyholders and come from different 
geographic areas of the United States in order that diverse agricultural 
interests are at all times represented on the Board.  The Board is appointed 
by, and holds office at the pleasure of, the Secretary of Agriculture.

ACTION:

On October 12, 1995, the Secretary of Agriculture announced his appointments 
to the FCIC Board of Directors:

Jack Kintzle, of Coggon, Iowa, has been active in the Iowa and National Corn 
Growers Association (NCGA) since 1979.  He served as NCGA's president, first 
vice president, and vice president of NCGA's Government Relations Committee.  
He is also a member of the Iowa and American Soybean Associations and the 
Iowa and American Farm Bureau Federations.  He further served as a chair of 
the Linn County, Iowa, Soil Conservation District. 

Robert Webster is a cotton grower from Waynesboro, Georgia.  He has a degree 
from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and is a member of the Southern 
Cotton Growers Association, the National Cotton Council and the Georgia Farm 
Bureau Federation.  He also served on the Burke County, Georgia, County Board 
of Commissioners between 1977 and 1980 and on the Georgia Cotton Commission.

Frank Leo Muller is a partner in Joe Muller & Sons, a diversified farming 
operation in Woodland, California.  He has a degree in agricultural and 
managerial economics from the University of California at Davis.  He is a 
member of the Yolo County Land Trust, the Farm Bureau Federation, the Pacific 
Coast Producers Board of Directors and the California Custom Foods Board of 
Directors.

The insurance industry appointee is Michael Keeting of Marysville, Kansas.  
He is the owner of Keeting Insurance and Investment Company and a member of 
the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents and the Association of American 
Agriculture Insurers.  He is past member of the Kansas Insurance 
Commissioner's Insurance Agents Advisory Council. 

Other members of the Board include Eugene Moos, Under Secretary for Farm and 
Foreign Agricultural Services; Karl Stauber, Under Secretary for Research, 
Education, and Economics; and Kenneth D. Ackerman, FCIC Manager and Deputy 
Administrator for Risk Management in the Farm Service Agency.