Jerry Jenkins Jr.

District: 11

Counties: Brunswick, Charlotte, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg

Lunenburg County tobacco and grain producer J. M. Jenkins of Blackstone was re-elected to a 12th term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors in November 2006.

He has served on the state board since 1974.

Jenkins chairs the VFBF Flue-Cured Tobacco Advisory Committee and is vice chair of the Grain Marketing Advisory Committee.

He is president of Lunenburg County Farm Bureau.

In addition to his Farm Bureau involvement, Jenkins is a member of Virginia’s Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.

Before he began farming in 1963, Jenkins worked as a Virginia Cooperative Extension agent in Gloucester County and as a teacher in Brunswick and Nottoway counties. He also served as a supervisor of tobacco production in Venezuela for British American Tobacco Co.