Prior to joining Texas Farm Bureau, Adams served as the director of Public Affairs for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. He has also held the communications and membership coordinator position for the Animal Agriculture Alliance and the communications director for U.S. Congressman Frank Lucas of Oklahoma, former chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture. He also served as the press assistant for the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry for former U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln.

Adams grew up in the small farming community of Gustine, where his family still manages their farm and ranch.

He graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Communications. While at Texas Tech, he completed a fellowship in Austin for former state Senator Robert Duncan during the 2009 legislative session.

Adams and his wife, Catherine, live in Waco with their daughter, Louisa.

He previously worked as a policy advisor in the Budget and Policy Division of the governor’s office where he handled agriculture and natural resource policy matters. Prior to that, Blake worked as an aide in the Texas Governor’s Office and the Texas Attorney General’s Office. He began his career in government as an intern with the Mayor of Huntsville, and subsequently served as an assistant to the City Manager of Huntsville.

Roach was raised in the small west Texas town of Big Spring. While in college, his parents moved to deep East Texas, where they now maintain a farm.

Roach and his wife, Jaclyn, have two daughters and reside in South Austin. He serves on the Sam Houston State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Advisory Board and is a board member of the Texas EMS Foundation. He received a bachelor of arts in Political Science from Sam Houston State University.

Wilbourn earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University, both in Agricultural Economics. During his graduate work, he utilized economic modeling techniques to determine the economic feasibility of drip irrigation for farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Reared in Abbott, Wilbourn spent his childhood summers working on his family’s farm in Happy. He and his wife, Ashly, have one daughter and reside in Waco.

McMullen grew up in rural Baylor County, where her family for three generations farmed wheat and cotton and raised cattle. While a student at Seymour High School, she attended what was then called the Texas Farm Bureau Citizenship Seminar, now the Texas Farm Bureau Youth Leadership Conference.

McMullen earned her bachelor of arts from Texas Tech University and her JD from Baylor University School of Law.