Washington State Grange

State President's Bio

Terry Hunt was elected State Master of the Washington State Grange at the organization's annual state convention in June 1999. Hunt is also currently serving as Overseer for the National Grange (Vice-President), and he is a board member for the Washington State FFA.

Hunt is a lifelong resident of Central Washington, and currently operates a cattle and wheat operation in Douglas County. The beginnings of the ranch belonged to his parents, Bertha and Russell, and was purchased by Hunt in 1967. The operation has since been expanded, but the family tradition continues: His sons, Rusty, Scott and Derek, continue to work the ranch, along with Hunt's wife, Mary, who is also active in the Grange and serves as a Douglas County commissioner.

Hunt attended Ephrata High School, where he was named president of the school's Future Farmers of America chapter. Four years after graduation, and while working on the ranch, he was elected Master of Two Springs Grange in Grant County.

Two years after purchasing the ranch, Hunt became president of the East Banks Irrigation Association, a Coulee City area organization responsible for conducting studies on the feasibility of resourcefully irrigating the East Bank area.

In 1988, Governor Booth Gardner appointed Terry to the Environmental 2010 Council. During his time on the council he graduated from the Washington Agriculture Forestry Education Foundation. In 1995, Hunt was appointed by then State Master Bob Joy to act as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Washington State Grange. Around this same time, Hunt was named president of the Washington Chapter of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, an organization dedicated to improving and enhancing wild sheep populations, and an organization Hunt was a large part of bringing to reality in the state of Washington. Just before becoming State Master in 1999, Hunt was appointed by Governor Gary Locke to represent agriculture on the Washington State Rural Development Council.

Hunt is active in many conservation-minded enterprises and was presented with the Wildlife Conservation Farm of the Year Award for Douglas County in 1997. He works to preserve the Conservation Reserve Program, and has given his time and energy to such causes as the Adopt-a-Highway Program, the Ronald McDonald House and Feed the Hungry.

The family belongs to St. Andrews Grange, Douglas County. He may be contacted at the State Grange headquarters in Olympia.

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