Richard Lindsey to Lead National Cotton Ginners Association

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis-based National Cotton Ginners Association (NCGA) named its leaders for 2024 during its recent annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

The NCGA’s 2024 officers are:  president – Richard Lindsey, Centre, Ala.; first vice president – Larry Black, Roscoe, Texas; second vice president – Brad Williams, Burlison, Tenn.; and third vice president, Tom Pires of Riverdale, California. Harrison Ashley, Cordova, Tenn., is NCGA’s executive vice president.

Lindsey, previously the first vice president of NCGA, is active in the ownership and management of Cherokee Gin and Cotton Company in Centre. He also is a partner in his family farming operation known as Coosa River Land Company. He was born into a cotton farming and ginning family that traces back to the 1830’s. In addition to his cotton background, he also served his area in the Alabama House of Representatives for 35 consecutive years. He received numerous awards during his legislative career including Legislator of the Year and The Lifetime Legislative Leadership Award. Lindsey graduated from Jacksonville State University with a degree in Business Management. He has served in multiple NCGA and NCC leadership positions among them as a NCC director and a director of NCC’s export promotion arm, Cotton Council International. 

Also announced at NCGA’s annual meeting was that Wes Morgan, general manager of Rolling Hills Gin, New London, North Carolina, is the 2023 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year. Honored as recipient of NCGA’s 2023-24 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service Award was Dr. Derek Whitelock, research leader at the USDA-ARS Ginning Laboratory in Mesilla Park, New Mexico.