AALA members may now vote in the 2025 election for president-elect and AALA directors until 11:59 p.m. CT on Friday, August 18, 2025.

President-Elect

Tiffany Dowell Lashmet

Tiffany Dowell Lashmet is a Professor & Extension Specialist in Agricultural Law with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.  Tiffany’s work focuses on legal issues impacting Texas landowners and agricultural producers.  She authors the award-winning Texas Agriculture Law Blog and hosts the Ag Law in the Field Podcast.

In 2019, Tiffany was awarded the Excellence in Agricultural Law – Academia award from the American Agricultural Law Association.  In 2016, she was named the Specialist of the Year by the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association.  In 2022, she was awarded the Distinguished Extension Program award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. She is a former board member of the American Agricultural Law Association.

Tiffany grew up on a family farm and ranch in Eastern New Mexico, received her Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness (Farm and Ranch Management) summa cum laude at Oklahoma State University, and her law degree summa cum laude at the University of New Mexico.  She is licensed to practice law in New Mexico and Texas. She lives in the Texas Panhandle where she and her family raise sheep and cattle and travel the country to compete in livestock shows.

Director Election 1

Julia Schatz

Julia Schatz is a lawyer, farm owner, and committed advocate for agribusiness and food clients. Julia is a partner in the litigation and regulatory groups in the Canadian national law firm of Bennett Jones LLP. She has a robust regulatory practice in which she advises on a broad range of product regulation matters, including in the agribusiness and food industries. Her advice covers issues relating to the registration, recall, licencing and compliance requirements in the federal Safe Food for Canadians Act, the Pest Control Products Act, the Feeds Act, the Fertilizers Act and the regulations under each. In addition, she provides product regulatory and due diligence support to her corporate colleagues on commercial transactions, including in the food, agribusiness and pet food spheres.

Julia has specific expertise in pesticide registration and regulation, including in respect of compliance matters, licensing, reporting and permit obligations and data compensation issues.

Julia has been a member of AALA for many years and has appreciated the opportunity to share cross-border perspectives with others working in the ag-space. She has participated in several different AALA committees and served on the AALA Board for a one-year term, filling the vacancy left by another board member. She would love the chance to serve a full term on the Board and share her unique perspectives with the Board and membership.

Julia grew up in a small town about an hour west of Toronto, Canada. After graduating high school, she moved to Montreal, Quebec to complete a Bachelor of Science in Neuropsychology at McGill University and obtained her LLB from the University of Toronto.

When not in the office, Julia is a member of Echo, a women’s choir committed to bringing the joy of music to the community. She enjoys spending time at her farm with her husband, John, and their three sons.

John Dillard

John Dillard is a food and agriculture regulatory attorney with a deep commitment to furthering the understanding of the broad subject of agricultural law. Since 2012, John has practiced with OFW Law in Washington, DC, a food, agriculture, and trade boutique in Washington, DC.

John presently leads OFW Law’s USDA Regulatory Practice and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. John advises and represents meat and poultry manufacturers, feed mills, farmers, and ranchers on food safety and labeling, the Packers and Stockyards Act, the National Organic Program, and APHIS matters. John also serves as a consultant with farm-to-table ranch operations.

John serves as outside general counsel to several food and agriculture trade associations. In this role, he provides counsel on antitrust compliance and corporate governance. In observing 100+ hours of board meetings per year, John has identified qualities that make an effective board member, which he applies to leadership positions. John also serves on the Executive Committee of the Friends of the National Arboretum.

John has attended every AALA symposium since 2012. He has served as co-chair of the Awards Committee since 2021. He also currently serves on the symposium planning committee and previously served on the distance learning committee. John is a frequent speaker in AALA programs.

John is a graduate of the University of Richmond, Purdue University, and Virginia Tech. He lives in Ashland, Virginia with his wife, Laura, and three children. Outside of work, John enjoys outdoor activities and ferrying kids to sporting activities.

Director Election 2

Jim Bradbury

Jim’s practice over three decades has provided him with a rich experience of working with talented lawyers in large firms, corporate executives as well as individual clients with a single problem. He loves practicing law and enjoys solving complicated problems for good people. His practice has included many areas but has focused on business as well as land, environmental, water, energy, and regulatory matters. His firm has offices in Fort Worth, Austin, and Bozeman. Jim enjoys following the legal and policy issues facing landowners, working with statewide associations and policy organizations on legislative and regulatory matters. He has served as outside General Counsel to various privately held corporations, including a large accounting and financial services firm. Jim is an adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, teaching Ag Law, and Natural Resources and Eminent Domain Policy. He is a recognized authority in agricultural law, property rights, conservation and water policy and regularly speaks these issues. Jim has been substantially involved in land conservation efforts in Texas representing individual landowners and land trusts. He serves on the Board of the Texas Land Trust Council and the Devil’s River Conservancy working to conserve some of the last, best places in Texas.

Angie Krieger

Angie Krieger is General Counsel for the National Pork Board (NPB), where she leads legal strategy, compliance, and intellectual property oversight. Her responsibilities include leading all contracting processes and negotiations, advising senior leadership and serving as the primary liaison to USDA/AMS regarding checkoff compliance and approvals. Angie has served a combined seven years at NPB and has been engaged in Checkoff-funded initiatives across the pork supply chain—from packers and processors to consumer-facing programs.

In Fall 2022, Angie stepped away from NPB to serve as Vice President of Operations at Sustainable Environmental Consultants. There, she led client-facing teams and served as the functional liaison for human resources, finance, and marketing and communications. During this time, she also supported NPB as an independent consultant, filling a leadership gap in operations before returning full-time in November 2023.

Angie has spent most of her career in the pork industry, holding diverse roles with a broad impact. Prior to her time at NPB, she served as Director of Animal Welfare at JBS Live Pork. Earlier in her career, she worked as in-house counsel for Cargill Meat Solutions, later transitioning to leadership roles in hog procurement and supply chain management. Her work has spanned the entire pork value chain, from farm to fork.

A strong advocate for women in the meat industry, Angie is a founding board member and current Past Chair of the Women’s Meat Industry Network (WMIN), a national organization supporting professional growth and leadership for women in the sector.

She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska and a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from Oklahoma State University.

Angie resides in Grimes, Iowa with her partner and is the proud mom of four daughters. She is a youth softball coach, co-owner of two pizza franchises, and an enthusiastic supporter of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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