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The 2023-2024 AQHA Executive Committee was elected at the AQHA convention in Fort Worth, Texas.
2023-2024 AQHA Executive Committee from left to right : member Jim Brinkman, second vice president Jeff Tebow, president Ken Banks, first vice president Jim Hunt and member Lori Bucholz.
including an AQHA Champion, Superior and Performance Register of Merit horses, AQHA World Show and Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifiers. Open Box Rafter Ranch was named the 2019 AQHA Ranching Heritage Breeder of the Year.
Hunt earned the 2009 Sunshine Bible Academy Distinguished Alumnus Award, was named the 2011 Black Hills Stockman of the Year and received the 2020 Black Hills Stock Show Pioneer Award.
Hunt has also served on the Rushmore Plaza Expansion Project Design Committee, Central States Fair Board of Directors, Black Hills Stock Show Horse Committee, Black Hills Stock Show Foundation Board, Sunshine Bible Academy School Board, SBA Foundation Board, Bethel Free Lutheran Church deacon and South Dakota Quarter Horse Association Board of Directors.
Hunt and his wife, Joni, have seven children, all of whom are involved in the family ranching operation: oldest son J. Tom and wife Sage, who have 4-year-old twin girls and 2-year-old boy and girl twins; daughters Jessica and Jimmie Jean; sons Joshua and Jordan; son Justin and wife Erica; and son Jeb and wife Dr. Grace Hunt.
SECOND VICE PRESIDEN JEFF TEBOW
Jeff Tebow is an AQHA life member and has served as an AQHA director since 2011. Tebow currently serves on the AQHA Executive Committee and formerly on the Stud Book
and Registration, Hall of Fame Selection, and Grievance committees. He has also served on the Racing Committee and Racing Council.
Tebow graduated with a master of business from Oklahoma City University, bachelor of business administration in finance from the University of Central Oklahoma and associate
of applied science in business/accounting from Connors State College. He is the managing partner and licensed insurance producer at Andreini and Co. of Oklahoma, chief executive officer of Heritage Place Inc., and auctioneer and real estate agent at Buford Resources Inc. Auction and Reality.
Tebow is a life member of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing and Oklahoma Quarter Horse associations. He is a past OQHRA president and currently serves as an OQHRA board of director. He was also the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Youth Association president
in 1983. He is a member of the Ranchero Visitadores-Los Bustardos, Southwest Texas Cattleman’s Association, National Auctioneers Association, Oklahoma Auctioneers Association, National Rifle Association and United States Team Roping Championships.
He has been an avid competitor at AQHA shows in the past and currently enjoys team roping. He also earned the reserve world champion title in boxing, and was a finalist in ranch riding and heading at the 2017 Adequan® Select World.
Tebow and his wife, Vickie, reside in Piedmont, Oklahoma. Tebow also has two daughters, AQHYA Past President Ann Elizabeth and Meg, who served on the AQHYA board of directors.
MEMBER JIM BRINKMAN
Jim Brinkman is an AQHA life member and has served as an AQHA director since 2011. Brinkman currently serves on the Stud Book and Registration Committee and Ranching Council. He has also served on the Hall of Fame and Best Remuda selection committees, AQHA World Show Sale committee and the parentage verification task force.
Brinkman is a third-generation rancher on the Pitzer Ranch, which was founded in 1946. He runs commercial cattle and is the owner, manager and trainer overseeing the ranch’s American Quarter Horse program. The ranch runs over 500 broodmares and hosts two AQHA horse sales a year, one in the spring and one in the fall, selling about 800 head total.
Brinkman is an AQHA Professional Horseman and showed the first-ever AQHA Superhorse, Vickie Lee Pine, for grandfather
and owner Howard Pitzer. Brinkman works to continue the traditions of honesty and integrity that built his family’s operation over 75 years ago.
Brinkman and his wife, Tana, a former Miss Rodeo Nebraska, reside in Ericson, Nebraska. They have two children, daughter Sarah and husband Lane; son Sam and his wife, Kendra; and three grandchildren, Kale, Rio and Brooke..
MEMBER LORI BUCHOLZ
Member Lori Bucholz of Waterloo, Nebraska, is an AQHA life member and has been an AQHA director since 2008 and was elevated to director-at-large in 2020. Lori has served as the chairperson of the Animal Welfare Commission and International Committee. She currently serves on the affiliate advisory board and Animal Welfare Commission.
Bucholz is professional registered par- liamentarian and multiple AQHA world champion and year-end high-point winner. She received her bachelor of science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Bucholz and her husband, Frederick “Rick” S. Bucholz, have three children, Marca Bucholz, Britta Ruoff and Spouse Chad, and Frederick “Buck” Bucholz; and five grandchil- dren, Sophia Bucholz, Cayson Ruoff, Bristol Ruoff, Lilly Ruoff, and Cooper Ruoff.
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