Nancy Farmer, President, Private College 529 Plan

Nancy Farmer, is president and CEO of Tuition Plan Consortium (TPC), sponsor of the Private College 529 Plan. In that capacity, she is responsible for the administration and operations of TPC, and she promotes the Plan with nearly 300 participating institutions and recruits additional institutions to participate. She represents the Plan with higher education and financial services associations, and is the national spokesperson for Private College 529 Plan.

Prior to joining TPC, Farmer spent 20 years in public service in appointed and elected offices. She started as director of a non-profit organization, and was later elected to three terms in the Missouri House of Representatives where she chaired the Ways and Means Committee. She directed government affairs for the mayor of St. Louis and then was appointed by the Missouri state treasurer to serve as his deputy. In 2000, Farmer was elected as the first woman state treasurer of Missouri where she was responsible for the state's $3 billion investment portfolio, banking services, unclaimed property program and Missouri's 529 college savings plan, MOST.