A. Faye Hundley of Champlain in Essex County was elected Dec. 4 to a fifth two-year term as chair of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Women’s Leadership Committee.

Elections of officers and directors were held during the 2024 VFBF Annual Meeting of Voting Delegates in Hot Springs.

The VFBF Women’s Program, for which the Women’s Leadership Committee serves as a steering body, provides leadership and service opportunities for farm women, and its members sponsor events that help educate the public about agriculture.

Hundley previously served as vice chair of the VFBF Women’s Leadership Committee. She has served 14 years as chair of the Essex County Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee.

She also serves as Essex County Farm Bureau’s president and has been a member of that organization for more than 30 years. Additionally, she serves on the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom board of directors and is a past member of the VFBF Legislative Committee.

Hundley is a 2016 graduate of the American Farm Bureau Federation Women’s Communication Boot Camp and is a member of the AFBF Grassroots Outreach Team.

She and her husband, Jay, are third-generation grain farmers. She attends Upper Essex Baptist Church, where she serves as a deacon and financial secretary and on other committees. She also is a coach and volunteer for Area 28 of Special Olympics Virginia.


With more than 135,000 members in 88 county Farm Bureaus, VFBF is Virginia’s largest farmers’ advocacy group. Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, nonpartisan, voluntary organization committed to supporting Virginia’s agriculture industry. View more convention news as it becomes available at vafb.com/convention, and follow us on social media via #VFBF24 #CultivatingConnections.

Contact Pam Wiley, vice president of communications, at 804-291-6315.