Colonial Farm Credit is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System, a financial cooperative owned by its member-borrowers since 1916. We serve people living and working in rural areas in eastern Virginia and southern Maryland.
The team at Farm Credit are financial professionals with the experience and knowledge to provide the help you need when you need it. And we know agriculture and country living. We’re locally operated by people you know and trust with offices conveniently located near you.

Paul Franklin
Chief Executive Officer

Don Costello
Director of Information Technology

Diane Fowlkes
Chief Financial Officer

Ronnie Gill
Chief Operating Officer

Wendy Hale
Chief Human Resources Officer & Director of Loan Operations

Michael Lacks
Chief Lending Officer - Commercial Loans

Dillon Way
Chief Strategy Officer
Congratulations to this year's Board and Nominating Committee winners.
Board
District 1: Jeffrey W. Griffith
District 2: William T. Henley, IV
District 3: Donna Kerr
Nominating Committee
District 1: John Craig Brann and Karl G. Shlagel, alternate: Steven H. Walter
District 2: Paul H. Davis and Corey D. Garrett, alternate: Benjamin Scott Mundie
District 3: Joel B. Gilman and Jeremy Dean Moyer, alternate: Roy A. Watson, Jr.
District 4: John M. Adams and Betsy R. Jenkins, alternate: Cornell B. Goldman
District 5: William E. Chappell, Jr. and Richard B. Kitchen, alternate: James L. Pridgen
District 6: T. Steele Byrum and Christopher Shawn Parker, alternate: Jared L. Webb
The Board of Directors of Colonial Farm Credit is composed of farmer-customers elected from the Association's service territory plus three outside directors and one board appointed customer.