Background
III, Joseph Williamson Luter, was born in 1940 in Smithfield, Virginia, United States.
III, Joseph Williamson Luter, was born in 1940 in Smithfield, Virginia, United States.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Wake Forest College, 1962.
President Smithfield Packing Company, Arlington, Virginia, 1964—1969, Bryce Mountain Resort Inc., 1969—1975. With Smithfield Foods Inc., since 1975, president, 1975—1986, Chief Executive Officer, 1975—2006, chairman, since 1977, consultant, since 2006. Board directors Smithfield Foods Inc., since 1975.
Lecturer Harvard Business School, Darden Graduate School Business, University Virginia. Member executive committee American Meat Institute.
Trustee Wake Forest University.
Married.