MEMPHIS, Tenn. — February 13, 2023 — Andy Jordan, a extensive-time employee in the National Cotton Council (NCC) Technical Products and services Division who now will work as an agricultural engineering advisor, acquired the 2022 Harry S. Baker Distinguished Assistance Award.
Jordan was recognized in the course of the NCC’s 2023 annual assembly held February 10-12 in Dallas, Texas.
The award, named for the late California sector chief and previous NCC President Harry S. Baker, is presented per year to a deserving specific who has supplied amazing service, management and dedication to the U.S. cotton industry.
In presenting the award, outgoing NCC Chairman Ted Schneider mentioned Dr. Jordan served 31 a long time in the Council’s Specialized Services division, 1st as supervisor of Advertising and marketing and Processing Know-how right before getting named as that department’s director and afterwards its vice president.
Schneider claimed that even though serving in these positions, “Dr. Jordan offered fantastic leadership in taking care of a diversity of complex challenges impacting the marketplace. Substantially of his success resulted from his skillful way of a Council staff members that included expert specialists in protection and wellbeing environmental sciences, engineering, textile processing, plant physiology/agronomy and plant breeding.”
Jordan, who gained engineering levels from the University of Georgia and Clemson College, joined the NCC in 1976 immediately after operating for Western Electric and Lockheed Ga Aerospace and serving a former stint as an instructor at Clemson.
For the duration of his time at the NCC, Jordan also served numerous a long time as executive director for The Cotton Basis in which he directed program advancement. That involved increasing money from the private sector and the administration of Basis investigation and education and learning plans valued at extra than $1.5 million per year.
Today, Jordan is an advisor to Cotton Council Global, Cotton Incorporated and the U.S. Cotton Have confidence in Protocol, the cotton industry’s sustainability initiative. He is effective with agricultural investigate experts, conservation groups, and foodstuff and trade businesses to acquire sustainability metrics for agriculture.
Jordan also at this time serves as government director of the Cotton Growers Warehouse Affiliation, is co-operator/science director for Protected Food items Solutions, an advisor to AgLaunch, an agribusiness technology accelerator, and a director for Agricenter Worldwide, a 1,000-acre agricultural research, conservation, and instruction heart in Cordova, Tennessee.
He and his spouse, Susan, are active in design and style and set up of ingesting h2o remedy units for the underserved in 5 countries.
Posted February 14, 2023
Supply: Countrywide Cotton Council
