- Edward B. Rust Jr.
Edward B. Rust Jr. is chairman of the board and
chief executive officer ofState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,Bloomington, Illinois . He is also president and chief executive officer of State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company and other principal State Farm affiliates.A native of
Illinois , Rust joined State Farm in1975 at theDallas, TX , regional office. He became president and chief executive officer in1985 and was elected to the additional post of chairman of the board in1987 .A graduate of Bloomington High School in 1968 and then a graduate of
Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Rust holds bothjuris doctor and master of business degrees fromSouthern Methodist University , Dallas, Texas. He serves on the boards of directors ofCaterpillar Inc. ,Peoria, Illinois .; andHelmerich and Payne, Inc. ,Tulsa, OK .He is also on the board of
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,New York, NY and is one of two co-chairs of theBusiness Roundtable . The chairman,Harold McGraw III is CEO ofMcGraw-Hill companies..Rust is chairman emeritus of the
Illinois Business Roundtable . He is former chairman of several other organizations, including theAmerican Enterprise Institute ,The Financial Services Roundtable , theInsurance Institute for Highway Safety and theNational Alliance of Business . He serves on the Board of Trustees ofThe Conference Board and is a former member of the board of directors of theAmerican Council of Life Insurers .Nationally recognized as a leader of the business community’s efforts to improve the quality of
education in the United States, he is former co-chairman of theBusiness Coalition for Excellence in Education and served onGeorge W. Bush ’s Transition Advisory Team committee on education. He is former chairman of theBusiness Higher Education Forum , former chairman ofThe Business Roundtable’s Education Initiative , a director ofAchieve, Inc. , a director of theNational Center for Educational Accountability , and served on the National (Glenn) Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.He is a trustee of
Illinois Wesleyan University and a member of the Business Advisory Council of the University of IllinoisCollege of Commerce andBusiness Administration . He is a former member of the advisory council of theStanford University Graduate School of Business, where the Edward B. Rust Professorship of Political Science is endowed. The endowed chair is currently held by Keith Krehbiel.He is a former trustee of
The American Institute for Property and Liability Underwriters and a former member of the board of overseers ofThe Institute for Civil Justice . Rust is a member of the Texas and Illinoisbar associations .External links
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