Woodall Moving to Denver, Named New NCBA CEO

(DENVER, CO) The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) announced two significant leadership changes this week including the naming of a new CEO. Colin Woodall, NCBA’s Vice President of Legislative Affairs in Washington, DC, was named following an exhaustive national search. Since joining the largest cattle organization in the United States 15 years ago, Woodall has been instrumental in ensuring the interests of NCBA members and the beef community through “his ability to build coalitions and bring people together across political divides,” NCBA president Jennifer Houston (Nebraska) said at the announcement. Woodall takes the reins and assumes the position immediately from Kendal Frazier, also a long-time NCBA leader who announced his retirement earlier this year. Originally from Big Spring, Texas, Woodall graduated from Texas A&M and worked both as a grain elevator manager and sales manager for Cargill at several locations in western Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle before moving to work on Capitol Hill. Ethan Lane, currently Executive Director of the Public Lands Council and NCBA Federal Lands, will succeed Woodall in his work on Capitol Hill. Lane, is a fifth-generation Arizonan, with 18 years of experience in natural resource and land use issues. Prior to his tenure with PLC and NCBA, he owned and operated a consulting firm specializing in natural resource issues.