AgWest Farm Credit has selected Bill Perry as its next president and CEO.

Perry will assume the top executive position for the Spokane-based financial cooperative at the beginning of 2025, replacing Mark Littlefield, who plans to retire at the end of this year. 

Perry currently serves as the chief lending officer at AgWest and has been with the organization—and Northwest Farm Credit Services prior to its merger with Farm Credit West—for 20 years. 

Knowing of Littlefield's planned retirement timeline, AgWest began searching for his replacement in January of 2023, shortly after the merger was completed. The company's board of directors conducted the search, intending to select the successor among the internal candidates, according to an AgWest release. 

Doug Filipponi, AgWest board chair, says in that release that Perry has a forward-thinking focus on customers that will "allow him to excel at continuing to unite our staff while best serving customer-members."

AgWest is part of the nationwide farm credit system and operates in seven western U.S. states. The organization has about $32 billion in total assets and provides financing, crop insurance, and related services to farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, commercial fishers, timber producers, and rural homeowners.