Sue Middleton is executive director of the Brennan Rural Group, a diversified family farming business based at Wongan Hills in Western Australia.
She has worked for 25 years at a local and regional level with rural and regional communities and organisations to manage change processes.
Ms Middleton has been involved in key leadership groups at a national and state level, including the Council of Australian Governments Reform Council, the National Regional Women's Advisory Council, the Australian Research Council, the National Rural Advisory Council and has been a Commissioner on the WA Agricultural Produce Commission.
She was the Australian Rural Woman of the Year for 2010, and was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to regional and rural Australia in 2002.