Leadership Team
Derrick Waggoner
Chief Lending Officer Diversified Markets
Derrick serves as Chief Lending Officer for Diversified Markets at Farm Credit Mid-America.
He leads Farm Credit Mid-America’s Food & Agribusiness, Crop Insurance, Growing Forward, and Farm Credit System Partnership teams. Derrick is a seasoned leader with 23 years of experience working in the Farm Credit System. Previously, he was a Division Leader and the East Region President for the Regional Agribusiness Banking Group at CoBank, one of the largest providers of credit to the U.S. rural economy.
Derrick holds a bachelor’s in Accounting from Murray State University. He also graduated from the LSU Graduate School of Banking and has held board leadership positions with the Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, Kentucky Council of Cooperatives, Mid-America Council of Cooperatives, and Tennessee Council of Cooperatives.
