Leadership Team

Tara serves as Chief Lending Officer for Agriculture at Farm Credit Mid-America. A member of the association’s Executive Committee, she provides strategic leadership for retail sales and operations teams across the Association’s territory.

She previously served as Senior Vice President Agricultural Lending, leading retail teams in Ohio. She began her career as a Financial Services Officer in 2001 and held roles of increasing responsibility in agricultural lending.

Tara holds a bachelor’s in Agriculture and Business Marketing from Wilmington College and a master’s in Business Administration from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. She has a Leadership Certification from The Wharton School, is a graduate of the Stonier School of Banking and the Farm Credit Leadership College.

Tara, her husband, Dusty, and son, Daxton, own and run a cash grain farming operation near Mount Vernon, Ohio. They love spending warm days on the lake and time together on the farm.