MLEC Shares Qualifying Deadline

Members interested in running for the MLEC Board should file by July 15, 2025.

(June 11, 2025 – Centerville, TN) – Each October, Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative holds official district meetings in each county where a Board of Director term is expiring. This year, elections will occur in the following counties: Hickman (incumbent Wayne Qualls), Houston (incumbent Sam Fussell), Humphreys (incumbent Larry Mayberry), and Lewis (incumbent Bill Webb).

Members interested in running for the MLEC Board in 2025 must meet the specified qualifications and submit a Declaration of Candidacy form by Tuesday, July 15, to have their name placed on the ballot in October. Candidacy declaration forms can be picked up from any MLEC location and found online at www.mlec.com/mlec-board-directors.

Qualifications include:

• Must be a natural person at least eighteen (18) years of age and a member in good standing now receiving residential electric service from the Cooperative.
• Must not be an employee nor the spouse of an employee of the Cooperative (or its subsidiaries), nor a child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew of an employee of the Cooperative (or its subsidiaries) related by blood, adoption, or marriage.
• Must not be a former employee nor the spouse of a former employee of the Cooperative (or its subsidiaries) unless employment with Cooperative (or its subsidiaries) was at least two (2) years previous to the date of the forthcoming district election.
• Is a continuous resident in the district from which election is being sought.
• Is a high school graduate or holds a GED certificate.
• Has never been convicted of a felony.
• If a candidate for re-election, must have received certification of completion of the Credentialed Cooperative Director Curriculum offered by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association or such similar cooperative director education and training program approved from time to time by the board of directors. If not a candidate for re-election, must understand that such will be a requirement for qualification to stand for any future re-election as such.

Official district meeting notices, including dates, will be in published in the local paper, The Tennessee Magazine and online at www.mlec.com/the-tennessee-magazine in September.

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