Ben Parks

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Advisory Council
Director, State Legislative Affairs - Florida Farm Bureau Federation (Gainesville)

Ben Parks is the director of State Legislative Affairs. His primary responsibility is lobbying members of the state Senate, House of Representatives, and Governor’s Office on legislative issues affecting agri-business. A graduate of St. Lawrence University (B.A.), Woodrow Wilson College of Law (J.D.), and Harvard University (M.P.A.), Parks previously worked as a legislative aide to Congressmen Skip Bafalis and Claude Pepper, and Sen. Lawton Chiles. Before coming to Farm Bureau in 1988, Ben also lobbied for two non-profit private property associations in Washington, D.C.

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