Frank Rennie is general counsel to the Southside Electric Cooperative Board of Directors.
Mr. Rennie, who lives in Powhatan County, has been a SEC member since 2014. He has been general counsel since 2015.
“I consider it an honor to serve Southside Electric and all of its members as general counsel. I am keenly aware of the responsibility to our board and our members,” Mr. Rennie says.
Mr. Rennie has been an attorney with CowanGates in Chesterfield since 1983. Since 2009, he has served as the county attorney for Lunenburg County. He is qualified and licensed to practice law in Virginia and before the United States Supreme Court.
He received a Bachelor of Science in international relations from the United States Naval Academy in 1976 and his law degree from the University of Richmond in 1983. He completed the Powhatan Leadership Institute in 2015. Mr. Rennie served on active duty in the United States Navy from 1976-81 and in the reserves from 1981-2011. He served in the Navy as a rear admiral from 2002-2011.
Mr. Rennie is a member of the Electric Cooperative Bar Association and the bar associations in Chesterfield and Powhatan counties. He is chairman of the Virginia War Memorial Foundation, vice chairman of the Fork Union Military Academy Board of Trustees and past chairman of the Central Virginia Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He is a member of West End Assembly of God in Richmond.
He and wife Priscilla, a retired law firm administrator, have two daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine; and two sons, Sam and Anthony.
Mr. Rennie enjoys hunting, fishing, traveling and college football.