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Left to Right: Member Butch Wise; Member Stan Weaver; President Sandy Arledge; First Vice President Ralph Seekins; Second Vice President Dr. Jim Heird
Chair at Texas A&M. He was on the executive committee of the National Western Stock Show and is an ex-officio director of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.
Dr. Heird is an honorary vice president of the Uruguayan Quarter Horse Association. He was an AQHA judge from 1977 to
2015 and has judged 13 AQHA World Championship shows, multiple international championships and two National Reining Horse Association futurities.
He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. and M.S. and has a PhD from Texas Tech University. He and his wife, Dr. Eleanor Green, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M, live in College Station.
MEMBER
STAN WEAVER
Stan Weaver of Big Sandy, Montana, has been an AQHA director since 2011. He is currently on the Foundation council, and is a former member of the studbook and registra- tion, public policy, Hall of Fame selection com- mittees, marketing and ranching councils, and served as chairman of the ranching council. He was also instrumental in helping develop the AQHA Ranching Heritage Breeders Program.
Weaver has bred American Quarter Horses for more than 30 years and has registered more than 1,400 foals with AQHA during that time.
Weaver and his wife, Nancy, began a Quarter Horse production sale in 1996 under Weaver Quarter Horses. Through the
production sale, horses from the Weaver Ranch have sold to all 50 states, seven Canadian provinces, South Africa, Australia, Germany and Mexico. Weaver has shown his own horses in cutting, reined cow horse and working cow horse. Weaver is involved with the Big Sandy Public School Board, North Central Montana Stock Growers Association, Montana Reined Cow Horse Futurity, Montana Cowboy Hall
of Fame, Montana Quarter Horse Association, Montana Land & Mineral Owners Association, and the Chouteau County Livestock Protection Association.
Weaver has owned and operated Weaver Cattle Co., a cattle and farming enterprise in North Central Montana for the past 40 years. Weaver also owns and operates Weaver Order Buying, a cattle brokerage firm.
He and Nancy raised three children on the ranch. All three children and families continue to work on the ranch but have also expanded their own ranching and farming interests in the area. KellyAnne Terry is married to Casey Terry and they have two children, Wyatt
and Avery, and live in Lewistown, Montana; David Weaver who lives in Big Sandy, has one daughter, Hailey; and Daniel Weaver also lives in Big Sandy.
The Weavers received the 1997 Montana Quarter Horse Association Ranch of the Year award, and Weaver Cattle Co. was recognized as the 2014 Montana State University Family Business of the Year in the business category for operations in exis- tence at least 50 years.
MEMBER
BUTCH WISE
Butch Wise of El Reno, Oklahoma, was named an honorary AQHA vice president in 2015. He was an AQHA director from 2001 to 2015.
He currently serves on the studbook and registration committee. Wise is a former member of the nominations and creden-
tials and racing committees and the racing council. He was the chairman of the Hall
of Fame committee from 2013 to 2015 and also served as chairman of the racing council. In 2014, he was a member of the AQHA Governance Task Force.
In 2004, Wise received the Oklahoma State University Animal Science School Graduate of Distinction award and in 2007, he received the AQHA Racing Council Special Recognition Award.
He is a member of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse and Florida Quarter Horse Racing asso- ciations. Wise owns Stone Chase Stables LLC and is the bloodstock agent and president of Wise Sales Co. Inc. His former career experi- ence includes AQHA, Ridgeleigh Farms Inc., Mel Hatley Farms and Cox Manufacturing. Locally he is involved with the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association in establish- ing a successful working arrangement with the Oklahoma legislature.
Wise and his wife, Nancy, have two sons and two daughters. Their sons are Clay and Parker Wise, and daughters are Mallory Wise and Ashlie Blair. Blair and her husband, Shawn, have two children, Derek and Lacie.
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