Chair
Dr. Frank W. Bacon represents District 2 members on the Southside Electric Cooperative Board of Directors. He has served as the board chairman for the past 12 years.
Dr. Bacon, who lives in Lunenburg County, has been a SEC member since 1980. He joined the Cooperative board in 1984.
“I consider it an honor and a privilege to be part of an organization that provides reliable electric service at the lowest possible cost to Southside Virginians. Likewise, I am excited about SEC’s leadership role in making a positive impact on the communities we serve. Examples include setting scoreboards for local school sporting events, changing lights on tall poles at ballfields, the establishment of the Southside Opportunity Fund to provide money and award scholarships for children of our Cooperative members and the creation of the lineman training school that provides job opportunities for our local youth here at home. It is a pleasure to serve an organization like SEC that truly places service to members as the guiding priority for every decision made and every dollar spent,” Dr. Bacon says.
Dr. Bacon is a professor of finance at Longwood University, a post he has held since 1990, after previously teaching finance and business classes at Virginia Commonwealth University and Southside Virginia Community College. In addition to his work at Longwood, Dr. Bacon is a longtime tobacco, cattle and grain farmer in Lunenburg County, and owns and manages Bacon’s Bird Preserve.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in business/accounting from the University of Richmond in 1972, a Master of Science in finance from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974 and his doctorate in finance from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1990. Dr. Bacon rose to the rank of second lieutenant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, serving from 1970-77.
Dr. Bacon has been a Credentialed Cooperative Director since 2003 and has received several certificates for his work as a director and in board leadership.
He is vice chairman of the Lunenburg County Board of Supervisors and has served in local government since 1990. He is a member and past chairman of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives Board of Directors, and previously served on the Virginia Retirement System Board of Directors.
Dr. Bacon is a member, Sunday school teacher and chairman of the Board of Trustees at Antioch Methodist Church. He also chairs the Antioch Cemetery Association Board of Trustees and Antioch Parsonage Board of Trustees.
He and wife Dana, who owns and manages Corner Creations by Dana and Troy’s Jeweler, have three sons, Frank Jr., Samuel and Christopher; and two daughters, Sally and Camille. They have five grandchildren—Wells, Haskins, Preston, Ruthie and Tenlee.
Dr. Bacon’s interests include gardening, quail hunting and training English setters.