People: Sanderson Farms Inc (SAFM.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Joe Sanderson	65	2004	Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Lampkin Butts	61	2004	President, Chief Operating Officer, Director
D. Michael Cockrell	55	1998	Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Director
Timothy Rigney	48	2012	Chief Accounting Officer, Secretary
Phil Livingston	69	2009	Lead Independent Director
John Bierbusse	57	2006	Director
John Baker	71	1994	Independent Director
Fred Banks	70	2007	Independent Director
Toni Cooley	52	2007	Independent Director
Beverly Hogan	61	2004	Independent Director
Robert Khayat	74	2007	Independent Director
Dianne Mooney	69	2007	Independent Director
Gail Pittman	59	2002	Independent Director
Charles Ritter	75	1988	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Joe Sanderson	Mr. Joe F. Sanderson is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He served as President of the Company from November 1, 1989 to October 21, 2004, and has served as Chief Executive Officer since November 1, 1989 and as Chairman of the Board of Directors since January 8, 1998. Mr. Sanderson continues to serve as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Before his tenure as an executive officer of the Company, he was continuously employed by Sanderson Farms in numerous positions starting in 1969. Mr. Sanderson is a member of the Company’s Executive Committee, which is a management committee, not a committee of directors.
Lampkin Butts	Mr. Lampkin Butts is President, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He served from 1996 to 2004 as Vice President-Sales for the Company. On October 21, 2004, Mr. Butts was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He began his career with the Company in 1973. Mr. Butts is a member of the Company’s Executive Committee, which is a management committee, not a committee of directors.
D. Michael Cockrell	Mr. D. Michael Cockrell is Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He has served, since 1993, as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer for the Company. Before joining the Company, Mr. Cockrell was a shareholder and member of the law firm Wise Carter Child & Caraway, Professional Association, of Jackson, Mississippi. He is a certified public accountant and was employed in the audit division of a public accounting firm from 1979 to 1980. Mr. Cockrell is a member of the Company’s Executive Committee, which is a management committee, not a committee of directors.
Timothy Rigney	Mr. Timothy F. Rigney is Chief Accounting Officer, Secretary of Sanderson Farms Inc. Mr. Rigney began service as Chief Accounting Officer on that date. Prior to that time, Mr. Rigney served the Registrant in capacities since 1990.
Phil Livingston	Mr. Phil K. Livingston is Lead Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Citizens National Bancshares, Inc. in Hammond, Louisiana, from its organization in 1983, until its merger into Deposit Guaranty Corporation on May 19, 1995. Mr. Livingston retired in 1998, but continued to serve as a banking consultant to AmSouth Corporation following his retirement until 2001.
John Bierbusse	Mr. John Bierbusse is Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He was employed by Duff and Phelps, Inc. from 1981 to 1987, and by A.G. Edwards from 1987 to 2004. Mr. Bierbusse served as Assistant Manager, Securities Research between 1999 and 2002 at A.G. Edwards, and as Manager, Research Administration from 2002 until his retirement in 2004. Mr. Bierbusse served on the New York Stock Exchange’s Series 16 Test Committee from 2002 to 2007 and on the New York Stock Exchange’s Research Analyst Qualification Examination Committee from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Bierbusse has been a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1987, and is currently retired.
John Baker	Mr. John H. Baker is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He has been the sole proprietor of John H. Baker Interests, a real estate and development company in Houston, Texas, since 1968.
Fred Banks	Mr. Fred Banks is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. Mr. Banks has been a partner in the General Litigation Group in the Jackson, Mississippi office of the law firm of Phelps Dunbar LLP since 2001. Since 2008, he has been a non-equity senior partner with that firm. From 1991 to 2001, he was a Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, and at the time of his retirement from the court in 2001, he was serving as Presiding Justice. Before serving on the Mississippi Supreme Court, Mr. Banks served as a Circuit Court Judge in Hinds and Yazoo Counties, Mississippi for six years. From 1976 until 1985, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
Toni Cooley	Ms. Toni D. Cooley is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. Ms. Cooley founded and has been president of Systems Electro Coating, LLC, a tier one supplier to Nissan of electro coated frames and other vehicle components, since 2001. She has served as president of Systems Consultants Associates, Inc., a management training and consulting firm established with the express purpose of assisting Jackson, Mississippi-based minority firms with capacity building, since 1993. Ms. Cooley is co-owner of Systems IT, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi, and is chief executive officer and president of Systems Automotive Interiors, L.L.C., a tier one supplier of upholstered seats to Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s Mississippi plant. From 1992 to 1993, Ms. Cooley worked as an International Contract Administrator for the international sales team of the former Turner Broadcasting Systems. She is a director of Trustmark National Bank.
Beverly Hogan	Ms. Beverly Wade Hogan is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. Ms. Hogan has served, since May 2002, as President of Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, a private, historically African-American, liberal arts college. Before becoming President of Tougaloo College, Ms. Hogan served for one year as Interim President. Before that, she served for ten years as a Commissioner for the Mississippi Workers Compensation Commission.
Robert Khayat	Dr. Robert C. Khayat is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He served as the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from July 1995 until his retirement in July 2009. Before that, he served the university in capacities, including as professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law from 1982 to 1995. Mr. Khayat served on the Board of Directors of Mississippi Power Company, a subsidiary of The Southern Company, and Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company, until his retirement from both boards in 2009.
Dianne Mooney	Ms. Dianne Mooney is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. She founded and served as Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Southern Living at Home, a direct sales division of Southern Progress Corporation, from 1999 until her retirement in 2007. Ms. Mooney was directly responsible for the launch and record growth of this $200 million division. Before that time, she was an employee of Southern Progress Corporation for over thirty years in various positions, including Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Custom Publishing. Southern Progress Corporation is a division of Time, Inc.
Gail Pittman	Ms. Gail Jones Pittman is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. She has served, since its founding in 1979, as Chief Executive Officer of Gail Pittman, Inc., an entrepreneurial business creating individually hand-painted, semi-vitreous china dinnerware and home accessories. It is located in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
Charles Ritter	Mr. Charles W. Ritter is an Independent Director of Sanderson Farms, Inc. He served, from 1967 to 2002, as President and a Director of the Attala Company, which is principally engaged in the business of milling and selling feed and corn meal. He now serves as a management consultant to the Attala Company. He has served as President of JRS, Inc., a owned real estate investment firm, since 1973. Mr. Ritter retired as a director of First M & F Corp. and Merchants & Farmers Bank, Kosciusko, Mississippi, and chair of the audit committee of First M & F Corp.’s Board of Directors in May 2011. First M & F Corp. has a class of securities registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Joe Sanderson	3,441,120
Lampkin Butts	1,180,320
D. Michael Cockrell	1,022,180
Timothy Rigney	--
Phil Livingston	--
John Bierbusse	--
John Baker	--
Fred Banks	--
Toni Cooley	--
Beverly Hogan	--
Robert Khayat	--
Dianne Mooney	--
Gail Pittman	--
Charles Ritter	--

As Of 30 Oct 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Joe Sanderson	197,600	4,547,400
Lampkin Butts	33,750	763,407
D. Michael Cockrell	39,376	673,971
Timothy Rigney	0	0
Phil Livingston	0	0
John Bierbusse	0	0
John Baker	0	0
Fred Banks	0	0
Toni Cooley	0	0
Beverly Hogan	0	0
Robert Khayat	0	0
Dianne Mooney	0	0
Gail Pittman	0	0
Charles Ritter	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
KHAYAT ROBERT C	15	$54.62
COOLEY TONI D	106	$54.62
BIERBUSSE JOHN	37	$54.62
MOONEY DIANNE	103	$54.62
LIVINGSTON PHIL K	32	$54.62
RITTER CHARLES WILLIAM JR	81	$54.62
BANKS FRED L JR	150	$54.62
HOGAN BEVERLY WADE	36	$54.62
PITTMAN GAIL JONES	43	$54.62
BANKS FRED L JR	453	$54.62
BAKER JOHN H III	106	$0.00
KHAYAT ROBERT C	43	$54.62
COOLEY TONI D	346	$54.62
LIVINGSTON PHIL K	93	$54.62
HOGAN BEVERLY WADE	25	$0.00
COOLEY TONI D	86	$0.00
PITTMAN GAIL JONES	10	$0.00
RITTER CHARLES WILLIAM JR	59	$0.00
BIERBUSSE JOHN	28	$0.00
LIVINGSTON PHIL K	23	$0.00
BAKER JOHN H III	426	$54.62
HOGAN BEVERLY WADE	102	$54.62
BIERBUSSE JOHN	115	$54.62
MOONEY DIANNE	298	$54.62
KHAYAT ROBERT C	10	$0.00

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