Leadership & Talent

Ron Anderson, Creative Director Behind 'Pork. The Other White Meat,' Dies at 82

He was affectionately known as the 'godfather of Minneapolis advertising'

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The Twin Cities agency scene mourned the passing of a giant earlier this month when creative director Rolland “Ron” Anderson, a titan of an earlier era in advertising, died at the age of 82.

Anderson spent roughly five decades in the ad industry and helped shape agencies both within and beyond his Minnesota home base, including Fallon, Martin Williams, Carmichael Lynch, Colle-McVoy, Campbell-Mithun and Bozell. At the peak of his career, he served as president of the latter shop’s Minnesota office and worked as its global creative director in New York.

Anderson,