Secretary
Paul S. Bennett represents District 1 members on the Southside Electric Cooperative Board of Directors. He has served as the board secretary since 2014.
Mr. Bennett, who lives in Campbell County, has been a SEC member since 1984. He joined the Cooperative board in 1993.
“I saw this as an opportunity to serve my local community and fellow citizens by working to ensure that Southside Virginia has a safe, reliable and economical source of electricity,” Mr. Bennett says.
Mr. Bennett has been a partner in Knoll Crest Farm Inc., a family-owned beef seed stock operation that markets genetics across the United States and internationally, since 1983. The farm is located in Red House.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in animal science from Virginia Tech in 1983.
Mr. Bennett is a Credentialed Cooperative Director and serves on the VMDAEC Governmental Affairs Committee.
Mr. Bennett served on advisory councils for the Randolph-Henry High School FFA and the Virginia Tech Animal Science Department. He is a deacon at Union Hill Baptist Church and has served as president of the National Beef Improvement Federation, Virginia Cattlemen’s Association, and Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association. He is on the boards of the National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium and Virginia Angus Association.
He and wife Tracy have a son, Scott, and a daughter, Sarah.