A. Faye Hundley of Champlain in Essex County was elected Nov. 30 to a fourth two-year term as chairman of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Women’s Leadership Committee.

Elections of officers and directors were held during the VFBF 2022 Annual Meeting of Voting Delegates.

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 sponsors events that help educate the public about agriculture. The Women’s Leadership Committee chairman also serves on the VFBF board of directors.

Hundley previously served as vice chairman of the VFBF Women’s Committee. She has served 13 years as chairman of the Essex County Farm Bureau Women’s Committee.

She has been an Essex Farm Bureau member for 30 years and currently serves as that organization’s president. 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 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 deacon and financial secretary and on other committees. She also is a coach and volunteer for Area 28 of Special Olympics Virginia.



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