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Gill elected as Coastal Electric board president
Gill elected as Coastal Electric board president
Joseph Fillmore Gill IV

The Coastal Electric Cooperative Board of Directors elected new officers and welcomed a newly elected director during its May 21 board meeting.

Joseph Fillmore Gill IV of Fleming was elected board president. Ken Luke of Richmond Hill was elected vice president, and Reagan Odom of Townsend was elected secretary/treasurer.

Gill joined the board in May 2023 to complete the unexpired term of the late Jack Waters and was elected by Coastal Electric Cooperative members to represent Liberty County in 2024. A lifelong Liberty County resident, Gill has family ties to the cooperative, as his great-grandfather also served on the board. He is senior vice president of Envirovac Holdings LLC.

Luke has represented Bryan County on the board since 2009. He is senior vice president of Supply Chain Management and Procurement for SNF Holdings in Riceboro.

Odom has represented McIntosh/ Long counties on the board since 2016. A lifelong resident of Long and McIntosh counties, she worked as a customs broker in Savannah for more than 12 years before earning her real estate license and beginning a career in real estate.

The board also welcomed Dr. Wallace Holland, elected by members to represent Bryan County. Holland succeeds Laura McGee of Richmond Hill, whose term concluded this year.

Officer elections followed Coastal Electric Cooperative’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Members. Because Coastal Electric is a not-for-profit cooperative, members elect directors for the nine-member board to serve three-year terms. Directors are cooperative members who live and work in the communities they serve and are responsible for making decisions in the best interest of the membership as a whole.

A total of 2,178 members voted in the cooperative’s annual election process held May 18-20 in advance of the May 21 Annual Meeting of Members. Members reelected incumbent directors Reagan Odom, representing McIntosh and Long counties, and John Toby Woods III, representing Liberty County, to new three-year terms on the board.

Members also elected Holland to represent Bryan County.