Candidate for
Director; Kern County Water Agency; Division 7

BIOGRAPHY

GENE A. LUNDQUIST

(Candidate for Reelection as Director, Division 7, Kern County Water Agency)

·Occupation: Vice President/Corporate Secretary for Calcot, Ltd., worldwide cotton and almond marketing cooperative with headquarters in Bakersfield.

·Born: Bakersfield, California, February 25, 1943.

·Married: Susan Randour; 1 child, Nels Eric Lundquist

·Education: Vineland School District, 1956; Arvin High School, 1960; BS, Colorado State University, 1964; postgraduate 1 year.

·Graduate California Agricultural Leadership Program (2 year Fellowship with travel domestically to study government as well as abroad to Africa).

·Additional accelerated studies with Executive Development Program at Colorado State University in 1978.

·Employed by Calcot, Ltd., 31 years.

·Current Chairman of the Board and Director of the Agricultural Council of California.

·Past Chairman of the Water Association of Kern County.

·Director, California Farm Water Coalition.

·Director, and three time President of the Board, Kern County Water Agency, 1975-91; 1996 to present.

·US Army, 1965-1967; Decorated Army Commendation Medal.

·Member of the Cotton Board, 1984-2000.

·Delegate to the National Cotton Council of America, 1984 to present.

·Appointed, 1995 to California Governor's Agricultural Summit.

·Avocations: Golf, tennis, reading.