[email protected] Tommy Hexter `21 became one of the only Grinnell College students to ever hold public office while still attending the College on Nov. 25, 2020 when he was elected to the Poweshiek County Soil and Water Conservation District. Since then, Hexter, along with his four fellow commissioners, has been in charge of protecting and managing the county’s soil and water. Hexter’s upbringing on a two-acre vegetable and egg farm in Virginia led him to become environmentally- and food-conscious at a young age. Though his parents both worked as librarians rather than farmers, farming was always a central part of his childhood – a part of his childhood that he didn’t view as unordinary until he was much older.