At it’s a April 2011 meeting, the Society elected John Frazier Hunt as its new president.

Hunt was raised on a farm near Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After the family farm was sold he worked at a nearby fruit and vegetable farm which also had a dairy, beef cattle and horses. Working on the farm and selling tomatoes to Campbell Soup enabled him to pay expenses for attending Penn State where he graduated in 1966. In 1969 he graduated from Dickinson School of Law, and then served as a law clerk for Chief Justice John C. Bell, Jr., of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In 1972 he became a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School and received a Masters Degree of Law. Since 1974, he has been in private practice. He founded Hunt & Ayres, P.C. in 1996.

Hunt has served as counsel and a member of the board of directors of several private and publicly held companies, foundations and institutions. He has served with several Quaker organizations as clerk of the George School Committee, Friends Rehabilitation Program, Fiduciary Corporation, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Planning Giving .

In 1987 he and wife Penny McCaskill Hunt purchased Eden Valley Farm, a 135-acre operation in northern Chester County. They have an 85-head herd of Black Angus and raise some 20 Wagu beef cattle which go for Kobe beef. Crops include corn, soybeans, wheat and hay. The farm has 28 horses, some owned by the Hunts and others boarded. They also kennel the PennMaryDel fox hounds for the Bellwood Hunt Club.

In addition to membership in the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, he belongs to the Pennsylvania Angus Association, Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Association, and the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. He also belongs to The Coaching Club, The Coaching Club of Great Britain, The Road Club of Great Britain, and The Four-in-Hand Club. He is Master of Foxhounds of Bellwood Hunt Club and a director of the Chester County Foxhunters Association.