Jacob Partridge, Claims Specialist

First and foremost, I am a Christian. I married my high school sweetheart over 22 years ago, and we have a 17-year-old daughter, Emma, and 14-year-old son, Cody. As a deacon of Eastview Baptist Church, I enjoy spending time serving my church family. I also enjoy riding horses, deer hunting and fishing when I get the time.

I’ve been a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard for over 25 years, mostly as an engineer officer. I’ve deployed three times, twice to Iraq and once to Kuwait. I am currently the commander of the 230th Engineer Battalion.

My career path has not been typical. Shortly after my first deployment to Iraq, I became a high school agriculture teacher and assistant principal. A second deployment to Iraq took me away from teaching, and I then started working full-time for the national guard, which resulted in moving my family multiple times. My wife was very supportive of my full-time military career and said she was willing to move anywhere with me but wanted us to be stable once our children were in school. I was notified I needed to move again the year my daughter started kindergarten, so I started looking for another career. I had an offer to go back to teaching agriculture, but I also got a different job offer from a lifelong friend as a crop insurance adjuster with Great American.

I didn’t know anything about crop insurance when I first started this job in 2014, but I soon found that it was one of the best careers available. Being able to help producers in their times of need, as well as every day being a different scenario and a different puzzle to solve, are both reasons I’ve never regretted this career change. As an adjuster, I’ve traveled to most of the states east of the Mississippi River and really enjoyed seeing the different agricultural practices used with different crops and locations from citrus in Florida and rice along the Mississippi River to tobacco in the mountains of East Tennessee. All these experiences are drastically different from the row crops I grew up around in West Tennessee.

Most recently, my National Guard unit and I were activated in November and assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force. Since then, we have worked with law enforcement in Memphis, TN to help make Memphis a safer place to live and visit. I am very grateful for the support of the Great American team during this time I have been on active-duty orders. My leadership, fellow adjusters, the claims processing department and the HR department have all been great in working with me while I finalized the 2025 claims I had already been assigned. They often worked with me after normal work hours at the end of the day, when all my military duties were completed and even made field inspections in my absence. For this, I will forever be grateful.