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                                        Please help us in welcoming our newest addition to Poteau FFA!
James Marshall is a Career Agricultural Education Instructor with 16 years experience in LeFlore County, building diverse and active programs in leadership, mechanics, public speaking, shooting sports, and livestock with multiple National 3-star designations before becoming a Poteau Pirate. Mr. Marshall has two children (10 and 18 months) and is married to Katie (Odom) from Cameron in 2020, a Poteau High School Alumni. He has family ties to the area, his mother being a graduate of Bokoshe High School and family still in the Bokoshe area farming cattle and forage as well as poultry production for OK Foods for many years. Mr. Marshall is a graduate of EOSC (Associates), Oklahoma State University (Bachelors), and Southern Nazarene University (Masters) and a member of Cameron Community Church. He grew up on a small family farm in Holly Creek/Oak Hill community near Idabel raising cattle and sheep following his family owning a swine production unit with Tyson Foods until 1998 and four generations of educators in the Idabel/Broken Bow area. They continue the family farming traditions on the family farm in Bokoshe. 
We are extremely thankful to have Mr. Marshall and family!