2025 AQHA Executive Committee
The 2025-2026 AQHA Executive Committee was elected during the AQHA Convention in Las Vegas.
From AQHA:
The 2025-2026 American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee was elected March 31 during the AQHA Convention in Las Vegas. Though AQHA operates primarily upon the decisions of its members through the board of directors, the five-person Executive Committee is responsible for implementing important decisions and governing AQHA between the annual meetings of the membership and the board. The Executive Committee convenes throughout the year to conduct and manage the business of AQHA.
The AQHA Executive Committee – consisting of a president, first vice president, second vice president and two additional members – is elected each year by the board at the Convention. Each member serves a term of one year until the selection of his/her successor. Members are eligible for re-election and may serve on the Executive Committee for up to five years.
President Jeff Tebow
Jeff Tebow is an AQHA life member and has served as an AQHA director since 2011. Tebow formerly served on the AQHA Stud Book and Registration, Hall of Fame Selection, Grievance and Racing committees, as well as the Racing Council.
Tebow graduated with a master’s in business from Oklahoma City University, bachelor’s in business administration in finance from the University of Central Oklahoma and associate of applied science in business/accounting from Connors State College. He is the managing partner and licensed insurance producer at Andreini and Co. of Oklahoma, chief executive officer of Heritage Place Inc., and auctioneer and real estate agent at Buford Resources Inc. Auction and Reality.
Tebow is a life member of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing and Oklahoma Quarter Horse associations. He is a past OQHRA president and was also the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Youth Association president in 1983. He is a member of the Ranchero Visitadores-Los Bustardos, Southwest Texas Cattleman’s Association, National Auctioneers Association, Oklahoma Auctioneers Association, National Rifle Association, World Series of Team Roping and Riata Stallion Incentive.
He has been an avid competitor at AQHA shows in the past and currently enjoys team roping. He earned the reserve world champion title in boxing, and was a finalist in ranch riding and heading at the 2017 Adequan® Select World.
Tebow and his wife, Vicki, reside in Piedmont, Oklahoma. Tebow also has two daughters, AQHYA Past President Ann Elizabeth and Meg, who served on the AQHYA board of directors.
First Vice President Jim Brinkman
Jim Brinkman is an AQHA life member and has served as an AQHA director since 2011. Brinkman currently serves on the Stud Book and Registration Committee and Ranching Council. He has also served on the Hall of Fame and Best Remuda selection committees, AQHA World Show Sale committee and the parentage verification task force.
Brinkman is a third-generation rancher on the Pitzer Ranch, which was founded in 1946. He runs commercial cattle and is the owner, manager and trainer overseeing the ranch’s American Quarter Horse program. The ranch near Ericson, Nebraska, runs more than 500 broodmares and hosts two AQHA horse sales a year, one in the spring and one in the fall, selling about 800 head total.
Brinkman is an AQHA Professional Horseman and showed the first-ever AQHA Superhorse, Vickie Lee Pine, for grandfather and owner Howard Pitzer. Brinkman works to continue the traditions of honesty and integrity that built his family’s operation over 75 years ago.
Brinkman and his wife, Tana, a former Miss Rodeo Nebraska, have two children, daughter Sarah; son Sam and his wife, Kendra; and four grandchildren, Kale, Rio, Brooke and Clara.
Second Vice President Lori Bucholz
Lori Bucholz of Waterloo, Nebraska, is an AQHA life member and has been an AQHA director since 2008 and was elevated to director-at-large in 2020. Lori has served as the chairperson of the International Committee and Animal Welfare Commission. She has served on the American Quarter Horse Foundation Committee and Council, the Nominations and Credentials Committee, the Affiliate Advisory Board, and Hall of Fame Selection and Animal Welfare Grievance committees.
Bucholz is a professional registered parliamentarian and received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has shown horses for more than 50 years and is an AQHA amateur champion, has won multiple AQHA world champion titles and year-end high-point awards and is an AQHA 10-year breeder. Lori also currently serves on the Colorado State University Ag Industry Leadership Council, Equine Sciences Advisory Board and the Temple Grandin Equine Center Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Texas A&M Equine Initiative Advisory Committee, National Snaffle Bit Association Board of Directors, the Omaha Equestrian Foundation Board of Directors, the Nebraska Quarter Horse Association Board of Directors and is the past president of the Nebraska State Association of Parliamentarians. She also serves on the Carl and Caroline Swanson Foundation Board of Trustees and Plastilite Corporation Board of Directors.
Lori and her husband, Frederick “Rick,” have three children, Marca Bucholz, Britta Ruoff and spouse Chad, and Frederick “Buck” Bucholz; and five grandchildren, Sophia Bucholz and Cayson, Bristol, Lily and Cooper Ruoff.
When she’s not in the saddle or spending time with family and their Jack Russell terriers, Lori is an active runner who has completed multiple marathons, a certified scuba diver and also enjoys reading, gardening and needlepoint.
Member Ross Roark
AQHA life member Ross Roark of Andrews, Texas, is an AQHA Professional Horseman, specialized halter judge and has been an AQHA director representing Texas since 2010. He was elevated to director-at-large in 2022.
Roark has served on the Animal Welfare Commission, Show and Stud Book and Registration committees. He served as the chairman of the Stud Book and Registration Committee from 2020 to 2022. A judging contest horse donor at both the AQHYA and AQHA world championship shows, Roark was president of the American Junior Quarter Horse Association (now AQHYA) from 1984 to 1985.
A halter horse trainer and exhibitor, Roark was the first AQHA exhibitor to earn 100 AQHA world championships in his career. He also holds a racing license in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana and California.
A graduate of Texas Tech University, Roark is a rancher and trainer. He is a Texas Caucus Chair and serves on the advisory board for Security Bank in Monahans, Texas. He is married to Sharon Roark.
Member Randy Ratliff
New Executive Committee member Randy Ratliff and his wife, Susan, reside in Glencoe, Oklahoma. Ratliff is an AQHA life member, served as a director from 2011-2022 and has served on the AQHA Show and Public Policy committees, as well as chairman of the Nominations and Credentials Committee. He also served on the Affiliate Advisory Board and was elevated to director-at-large in 2023.
Ratliff received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and recently retired from Syngenta, a global agribusiness corporation. Outside of the horse world, he had served in several positions on agriscience boards, such as the Southern Weed Science Society, where he received a distinguished service award; and the Political Action Committee at Syngenta. He is a pilot and past president of the Shiloh Pilot Association.
In the equine industry, Ratliff is a National Snaffle Bit Association life member and served in leadership positions in the North Carolina Horse Council and the North Carolina Quarter Horse Association, where he was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame. Showing and breeding western pleasure horses, Ratliff also served as the AQHA Region 10 Experience Committee chairman.
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