The counties of Albemarle, Greene, Madison, Rockingham, and the portion of Page County located south of U.S. Route 211.
Darlene Carpenter (Incumbent)
Darlene Carpenter proudly represents the members of Rappahannock Electric Cooperative as the Region III Director and has held every officer position during her long tenure. She was elected by the Board to represent REC as the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Director for many years and represented REC as the Director of the National Rural Utilities Corporate Finance Corporation (CFC), the bank for cooperatives.
She serves on the Safety & Services Committee for the State Association and the Communication & Public Relations Committee.
Carpenter is a retired banker, having served Culpeper and surrounding areas before retiring as Senior Vice President and Loan Officer of Wells Fargo Bank. She is a past President of the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce; Auxiliary to the Culpeper Memorial Hospital; Leader for the VA Bankers Association YBS; member of the Brightwood Ruritan Club; volunteer for Madison Emergency Services; and charter member of Culpeper Toastmasters Club.
She also served many years on the Gaff-n-Go Rodeo Committee for the Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives.
Carpenter is a graduate of Germanna Community College, the Virginia Bankers School of Bank Management at UVA and the American Institute of Banking and has a Non-Profit Management Certificate from UVA. She is currently a Realtor with Century 21 NM in Culpeper. She has earned all certifications from the NRECA including Director Gold.
She and her husband, Edward, reside in the Reva area of Madison County and have a small beef cattle operation. She is a member of the Bethsaida United Methodist Church. It is her honor to serve as a Director and be associated with the outstanding workforce at REC. As systems and methods change, her focus is and will always be you, the members, to provide safe, affordable, and dependable service with our highly skilled and dedicated workforce.
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Steve Walsh
As a resident of Virginia since 1985, Steve owns and operates Glenwood Farm in Madison County, Va.
With over 40 years in a variety of leadership and board positions, Steve is managing director of global operations for Traxys, a privately owned U.S./Luxemburg metals, mining and energy company. His work there centers on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings of operating assets.
Previously, Steve served as CEO and EVP of both electric distribution companies (1.5 million connections) as well asintegrated utilities and mining companies in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
A retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, he completed some 26 years on active duty, including seven combat deployments in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, primarily in special operations assignments.
From 2004 to 2006, he was recalled to active duty to serve as the electricity program manager in Iraq and Afghanistan where he managed thereconstruction and repair of the electrical grid (generation, transmission, distribution, and gas pipelines).
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in general engineering/international affairs from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MSBA in Finance from Strayer University and has completed the Advanced Management Program & Corporate Directors Program at Harvard Business School. Steve presently serves on the Board of Directors of the PM Power Group—a Michigan-based copper refinery and Ukerhydroenergo, a large Ukraine-based hydroelectric company that supplies electricity to both Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Washington Post and other publications with articles on improving the electrical grid, foreign affairs and other topics.
If elected to represent Region 3 and the members of REC, Steve’s
experience in the electrical sector will help provide advice and counsel to ensure the members are provided with the best possible service and the lowest possible price.
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