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Mrs. Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee currently serves as the Chairman of our Board of Directors, a position she has held since January 2005. Mrs. Shehee is also a former State Senator of Louisiana and currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company, a major shareholder, and Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, Crematorium and Cemeteries, Inc. Mrs. Shehee has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company and Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, Crematorium and Cemeteries, Inc. since October 1971. She oversees all operations of the insurance company and funeral homes. Mrs. Shehee served on the Forum 500 Board of Governors and on the Committee on Committees of the American Council of Life Insurance (ACLI). She also served on the Board of Directors and on the Taxation Steering Committee of the ACLI. In addition, Mrs. Shehee is Chairman Emeritus of the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, for whom she also served as the President and Chairman of its board of directors. Mrs. Shehee has served in various executive capacities for the Life Insurers Conference and is a board member the Louisiana Insurers' Conference, is chairman of the Louisiana Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association and a member of the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. | 