Scot Hillman

Scot Hillman is the great-grandson of company founder Jeff Heiskell. He began working at the company during the summer prior to his senior year in high school in 1975. He went on to earn dual BA degrees in History and Communications at Stanford University before returning to the family business in 1980.

In 1991, he became President of the Company when his father, Dale, retired from that position. In 2001, Scot was named Chief Executive Officer of J.D. Heiskell Holdings LLC. In 2007, he passed that title to Duane "Butch" Fischer and assumed his current title of Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors and Manager of the LLC. Scot served as President of the California Grain and Feed Association after six years on its Board of Directors and was also a two-term member of the Board of Directors (and served on the Executive Committee) of the American Feed Industry Association. He provided half a dozen years of service to the National Grain and Feed Association's Board of Directors and sat on that board's Executive Committee as well.

Scot also serves on the Board of Directors of Sebastian Enterprises and as Chair of that firm's Executive Council, and as a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Tulare chapter of the Future Farmers of America. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Tulare, a past Board member of the Tulare Chamber of Commerce, spent a dozen years as a Public Utilities Commissioner for the City of Tulare, and has been the Spelling Master at the Tulare County Spelling Bee since the event began in 2000.