Middle Tennessee Electric members re-elect incumbents to board

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation members re-elected four incumbents to their board of directors seats during the cooperative’s Annual Meeting Saturday at Embassy Suites Murfreesboro - Hotel and Conference Center.

Incumbents Bill Giddens, David Lee, Luther Lenning and Jim Mills won re-election to their seats.

In Williamson County or District 1, Giddens collected 502 votes. He ran unopposed. Giddens holds one of three seats for MTEMC’s District 1.

For the Rutherford County or District 2 seat, Lee defeated M.A. Smitty of Eagleville by a 820-261 margin. There are a total of three MTEMC board seats representing Rutherford County.

Lennning, who lives in Mt. Juliet, ran unopposed and represents Wilson County’s District 4A. He received a total of 552 votes. In Wilson County’s District 4D, Mills collected 501 votes and ran unopposed. There are a total of four MTEMC board seats representing Wilson County.

The annual meeting, held at Embassy Suites Murfreesboro - Hotel and Conference Center, completed a week-long opportunity for the cooperative’s members to vote for their board representatives. On Aug. 10-14, members could vote at their local district office.

In an organizational meeting following the voting, the board re-elected Bone as chairman, and then elected Will Jordan of Rutherford County as vice chairman and Mike Woods of Rutherford County as secretary-treasurer.

In addition, Gladys Wildman of Rutherford County won the grand prize — a used 2000 Ford Ranger XLT pick-up truck.

More than 1,000 people attended the meeting. As part of its bylaws, MTEMC has held a members’ meeting every year since the not-for-profit cooperative was organized in 1936 by a group of Middle Tennessee citizens.

Posted on August 15, 2009.

 

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