William F. Osl Jr.

Board of Directors, District 9

Counties: Amelia, Appomattox, Buckingham, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan and Prince Edward

Cumberland County cattle, forage and forestry producer William F. “Bill” Osl Jr. of Columbia was elected to a third three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors in November 2022.

Osl serves on the Cumberland County Farm Bureau board and is a past president of that organization. He chairs the VFBF Forestry Advisory Committee, and serves as president and chair of and the State Fair of Virginia Youth Development Board. He also serves on The Meadow Event Park Oversight Committee, the VFBF Compensation Committee and the Countryway Insurance Co. board of directors. He has served on the VFBF Membership Categories Study Committee and Legislative Committee, and he is a former member of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation AgPAC board of trustees.

He retired from AT&T and Lucent Technologies after working for 28 years as a corporate officer and vice president.

Osl is currently chair of the Virginia Forestry Board and past chair of the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors, Commonwealth Regional Council, the Cumberland County Public Schools Foundation Inc., the New York City Rescue Mission, and the Information Communication Institute of Singapore. He has served on the boards of AT&T Consumer Products Ltd. and Cancer Hope Network.

He attends Cartersville Baptist Church. He and his wife, Stephanie, own and operate Oakland Farm. They have five children and 19 grandchildren.