Bill Gordon (MN) will serve as 2020 American Soybean Association (ASA) president, following a vote of the ASA board this morning in St. Louis.

Gordon previously served as treasurer of ASA and has been a national director since 2012. He’s a fourth-generation farmer. With his father, he grows 50/50 soybeans and corn across 2,000 acres, including 250 acres of buffer strips and wetlands. Gordon is the owner of Worthington Tax and Business Services, a full-service business including farm analysis and planning.

He is also on the board of directors for a mutual insurance company. Gordon and his wife Dawn have four children: Luke, Lance, Anna, Liam and a yellow lab named Jedi.

Gordon replaces Davie Stephens (KY) as president, and Stephens moves to the role of ASA chairman. Former chairman John Heisdorffer (IA) rotates off the nine-member ASA Governing Committee.

The ASA Board also elected Kevin Scott (SD), to serve as vice president, a position that places him in line to serve as the association’s president in 2021.

Scott previously served as secretary and an at-large member of the ASA Governing Committee. He’s been on the ASA board of directors since 2012. Scott and his wife Jannell farm with a brother, nephew and son in southeast South Dakota on a fourth-generation operation that began in 1886.

In addition, the ASA board voted to elect Brad Doyle (AR) as secretary; Brad Kremer (WI) as treasurer; and Bret Davis (OH), Josh Gackle (ND); Daryl Cates (IL) and Stan Born (IL), as at-large members of the governing committee. New members beginning their nine-year terms on the ASA board are John Comegys (DE); Steph Essick (IA); Mauricio Garcia (TX); James Hereford (AL); Brad Macauley (NY); Matt McCrate (MO); Phil Ramsey (Indiana); Justin Rivers (SC) Dave Walton (IA); Casey Youngerman (TN) and Andrew Moore (GA).