The Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives (VMDAEC) has a new leadership team.
Wade C. House, a director at Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative, based in Manassas, has been elected as chairman of the VMD Association Board of Directors for 2022 to 2023. The new vice chairman is C. Michael Sandridge, a director at BARC Electric Cooperative, based in Millboro, VA. Central Virginia Electric Cooperative’s (CVEC) very own director, George Goin, is the new secretary/treasurer.
The leaders were elected by board members on July 25 at the association’s 78th annual meeting, held at the Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA. They will be responsible for helping to guide the direction of the association, which includes 15 electric cooperatives from the Cumberland Gap to Delaware, serving nearly 900,000 meters and 1.84 million people in parts of 6 states.
Goin has been a director at CVEC since 1993, serving as a past chairman and treasurer, and a member since 1972. He also is chairman of the board of Firefly Fiber Broadband, CVEC’s wholly-owned, high-speed internet subsidiary.
He and his wife, Claudia, live outside Scottsville on Modesto Farms and Greenhouses. They have 2 sons and a granddaughter. Goin is a Vietnam-era veteran, serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1972. He retired from the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the U.S. Postal Service, and has farmed Modesto Farms since 1974.
