Nicole Van Vleck

Director

Nicole Montna Van Vleck is a director of the Bank and resides in Northern Nevada. Ms. Van Vleck is the President and Chief Executive Officer of family owned and operated Montna Farms, in Yuba City, California. Montna Farms is a major grower of Japanese short grain specialty rice as well as a leader in working lands conservation. She is a third-generation rice farmer born and raised in Sutter County. She serves on numerous state and national associations as an advocate for the state's farmers for which she has been recognized with several awards such as the Sacramento Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business and USA Rice Farmer of the Year. She is a graduate of the California Agricultural and USA Rice Leadership Programs as well as a regular participant in the UC Davis California Agribusiness Executive Seminar. Van Vleck earned her B.A. in Political Science with an emphasis in business administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.