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Bill Even

Bill Even

Director
CEO, National Pork Board

Bill Even joined First Dakota National Bank Board of Directors in 2024. Bill is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Pork Board based in Des Moines, IA where he is responsible for leading Pork Checkoff-funded research, promotion, and education projects on behalf of the nation’s 60,000 pork producers.

Bill served as South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture from 2007 to 2010 where he managed six department divisions: Agriculture Regulatory Services, Agriculture Development, State Fair, Wildland Fire, Resource Conservation and Forestry, and Agricultural Policy.

Bill also served as Deputy Secretary of Tourism and State Development, Director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, State Energy Policy Director, and Policy Advisor and Executive branch lobbyist for SD Governor Mike Rounds. Bill holds an A.S. in Agricultural Production from Lake Area Technical Institute, a B.S. in Agricultural Business from South Dakota State University; and a Juris Doctorate from Drake University Law School.

While in law school, Bill served as Executive Editor of the Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, clerked for the law firm of Hefner and Bergkamp, P.C., and interned with the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington, D.C.