Landry is a Boyle County native who has been an active 4-H’er since he was nine years old. When you meet Landry, you automatically see his passion for green runs through his blood along with his family. Landry has been an active member of the Boyle County 4-H Teen Club, the District 4 4-H Teen Council and the Kentucky 4-H State Teen Council. Over Landry’s nine-year career in 4-H he has identified and practiced his talent of working with people. Landry says, “4-H has blessed me with a large network of motivated youth that I get the pleasure to grow with and am proud to call my great friends.”
Take a few minutes to meet our new Kentucky 4-H State President, Landry Woodrum . . .
Q: Why did you want to be a Kentucky 4-H State Officer? Did someone inspire or help you make that decision?
Landry: Since I began participating in Kentucky 4-H leadership programs, State Officers have been role models of mine. Individuals like Brandon Darby and Delaney Simpson drove me to be a more well-rounded 4-H’er and a better man. Because of that, it was a goal of mine to replicate their positive influence by serving as an officer myself.
Q: How many years have you been in 4-H? What has been your primary focus in 4-H?
Landry’s first demonstration.
Landry: I have been in 4-H since I was 9 years old, as a Junior member I focused on my entrepreneurship project and speech contests, but when I went to Teen Summit for the first time in 7th grade I became hooked on leadership programs and they have been my focus ever since.
Q: What has been your favorite part of 4-H thus far?
Landry: Getting to know so many other friendly and motivated young people.
Q: What are your goals as a State Officer in your position? What do you want to accomplish?
Landry: Our team has come up with a few ideas for the coming year, mostly focused on creating new opportunities for 4-H’ers to sharpen their leadership skills at the state level.
Q: Who do you want to meet and learn from while you are in office?
Landry: I would like to meet young people from across the state and learn what they would like to see improved in regards to state level programming.
“Landry is motivated, focused, and intentional with all of his responsibilities,” said Matthew Anderson. “He devotes much of his time to helping others in youth organizations.”
Q: How do you define “leadership”? “Success”?
Landry: Leadership is the ability to positively influence other people to be productive. To me, success is not only meeting your goals, but exceeding your own expectations.
Q: What advice would you give a younger 4-Her?
Landry: Get involved in leadership programming, anyone can get involved and grow as a person no matter their background, interests, or skillsets. It will be a life changing experience and you will meet some wonderful other young people.
Q: If you were to speak with a potential donor, what would you say to them? How would you persuade them to give to 4-H?
Landry: I would describe to them 4-H’s incredible ability to use objects, whether it’s a show heifer, a laptop, or a set of speech cards, to grow a young person into a confident person and capable citizen. By giving young people a chance to be excellent in a certain area like showing livestock, coding, or public speaking, you build their self-esteem and make them feel valued. By meeting other 4-H members and volunteers through their project, 4-H’ers build positive relationships with other youth and create beneficial youth adult partnerships. By using this age old formula, 4-H has become the largest and most successful youth development organization in the USA, and will continue to make a positive impact on countless American young people.
GET TO KNOW LANDRY OUTSIDE OF 4-H . . .
Q: Where do you want to go to school and what will you major in? What are your future plans/career?
Landry: I will be attending the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment this fall with a major in Agriculture Economics. I hope to work for a major agricultural corporation and eventually retire to farming full time if possible.
Q: What are your hobbies? Outside of 4-H J.
Landry: I enjoy studying history, at UK this fall my only elective is going to be a European history through 1750 class, which should be interesting. I also enjoy spending time with my friends either playing video games or driving around Danville. A fun fact most people would not guess about me is that I am excellent at water skiing.
Q: What is your favorite meal?
Landry: A medium rare rib-eye with a baked potato (butter only) and grilled asparagus, along with a freezing cold glass of cold milk.
Q: How would your friends describe you?
Landry: Talkative, supportive, interesting conversation, and spontaneous would probably be a few adjectives.
