Stewart Carter joined the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Board of Governors in 2019.

Carter was a Big Eight champion and an NCAA champion while helping Iowa State win the NCAA team title in 1987. He was also named Iowa State Male Student/Athlete of the Year in 1987 and finished sixth at the U.S. Senior Open Freestyle tournament in 1988. He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum’s Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame of Iowa in 2016 and in 2017 as a member of ISU’s 1987 national championship team. He is also a member of the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Battle of Waterloo Hall of Fame.

Carter is currently the John Deere Logistics Manager for the United States and Canada, a role he began in 2017. He began working for John Deere in 1991 as an engineering intern and became a full-time employee in 1992, after receiving his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Southern University. He was a test and development engineer in Waterloo, Iowa, from 1992 to 1996. Carter performed various supply management positions from 1996 to 2000 in Moline, Illinois, before moving into leadership roles in operations, engineering and supply management in Coffeyville, Kansas, from 2000-2006. He returned to Waterloo as a supply management leader from 2006-10 before returning to Moline from 2010 to 2017 as a leader and project manager for supply management.

He received John Deere’s Enterprise Innovation and Collaboration Award in 2013 and was the recipient of the National Society of Black Engineers’ Gene Washington Champion of Champions Award in 2018. Carter serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Business Executive Advisory Board and on the Board of Corporate Affiliates for the NSBE. He is also a member of the National Black MBA Association and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Carter volunteers with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, March of Dimes / March for Babies and Junior Achievement. He was awarded his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Northern Iowa in 2009.