Sanderson Farms, Inc. announced that Fred L. Banks, Jr. has informed the Company that he will retire from the Sanderson Farms Board of Directors when his current term ends at the 2022 annual shareholders? meeting. Banks is a Senior Partner at Phelps Dunbar LLP, Jackson, Mississippi, practicing general commercial litigation. He has also had extensive experience as a judge having served as a Presiding Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1999 to 2001 and Justice from 1991 to 1999.