Mallory Strickland is a graduate of Ohio State University and NC State University. She joined Smithfield Hog Production in 2010, as a production trainee from Cardington, Ohio, where she grew up raising her own breeding stock along with 4-H and FFA show pigs. Currently, she is the animal care program manager for Smithfield Hog Production and oversees the Animal Care Management System for the company and contract farms across the nation.

Mallory is responsible for the internal and third party/external animal care audits on company and contract sites. She is the lead for the Animal Care pillar of Smithfield’s Sustainability Impact Report. She serves as Smithfield Hog Production representative on the National Pork Board Common Swine Industry Audit Task Force, PQA Task Force. Mallory also serves on the NC Pork Council conference and producer education committee and scholarship committee. She was a participant in the 2024 Pork Leadership Institute class (PLI). The PLI program is a year-long collaboration hosted by The National Pork Board (NPB) and National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)  Mallory resides in Warsaw, NC with her husband, and dogs.