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J. Nelson Maddux has been awarded the 1979 Honors Award by the Southern Division of ADSA. Maddux was born at Cookeville, TN, March 29, 1918, and grew up on a dairy and livestock farm working principally with Jersey cattle. He was a 4-H Club member from 1928 to 1932. During high school he was local, district, and state president of the Tennessee Association of the Future Farmers of America and was senior class president. Other honors included: member of the dairy and livestock judging teams, best-all-around student (4 years), member basketball, baseball, and debate teams, National Honorary Society, National Forensic League Balfour Key, and American Farmer FFA degree.

He entered the University of Tennessee in 1936, majoring in agricultural education and minoring in animal science and agronomy. Graduating in 1940, he taught vocational agriculture in Baxter, TN High School for 2lh years. He then entered the US Army in 1942 and became a veterinary technician; his duties included the management of a milk processing plant.