Gillian Kirkup is a Yanco grower. She is a member of the Rice Marketing Board for the State of NSW and Riverina Local Land Services, and a representative of Irrigation Research Extension Committee.
Ms Kirkup was chair of Murrumbidgee Irrigation, member of NSW Agricultural Consultative Committee to the Bureau of Meteorology, member of the reference panel for the Prime Minister's Working Group on Soil, Water and Food. She was also a director of Basin Community Association, NSW Irrigators Council and a delegate of National Irrigators Council.
Ms Kirkup was named one of the Top 100 Women in Australian Agribusiness in 2014, and an honorary councillor of Ricegrowers Association of Australia Inc.