COLEMAN, TX — The Board of Directors at Coleman County Electric Cooperative (“CCEC”) has named C. H. Campbell as its new general manager and chief executive officer (“GM/CEO”).  Campbell will follow the current GM/CEO, Ms. Synda Smith, who earlier this year announced her retirement from CCEC, effective December 31, 2024, after serving the cooperative for 37 years, including the past few years as GM/CEO.

            “The CCEC Board of Directors is pleased to announce C.H. as the cooperative’s new GM/CEO, said Brent McMillan, chairman of the CCEC Board of Directors. “He brings a wealth of training and experience in the operations and business of electric cooperatives in the state. We are very appreciative of the long-time dedicated service to CCEC by Synda and wish her well. The Board of Directors had the difficult  but fortunate task of making this selection from a number of highly-qualified candidates.”  

            “The Board is confident that C. H., with his deep background, training, and experience in electric cooperatives will fit in well with CCEC, and our service community.”

            Campbell is a native of West Texas, having been born and raised in the Texas Panhandle town of Wellington.  His roots are in the electric cooperative business, as family members worked many years at Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Wellington, Texas; and Campbell himself has been employed at Wood County Electric Cooperative, headquartered in the East Texas town of Quitman, Texas, the past 17 years, including the last seven years as Assistant GM and Chief Operating Officer.

            Campbell received his degree in engineering from Texas Tech. He and his wife, Michelle, have three children, two sons and a daughter. One son is a firefighter in New Mexico, and the other son is a student at Texas Tech. The daughter is a freshman in high school.

            Coleman County Electric Cooperative provides retail electric service to more than 9,000 meters over more than 4,000 miles of line in eight west Centrtal Texas counties (Coleman, Runnels, Concho, Tom Green, Brown, Callahan, Taylor, and Coke). 

            CCEC is a member/owner of Golden Spread Electric Cooperative (”GSEC”), an electric generation and transmission (“G&T”) company, headquartered in Amarillo and Lubbock. Golden Spread generates electric power, and also provides transmission of wholesale electric service, to its sixteen retail cooperative owners whose service areas are spread over one-quarter of the land mass of Texas.  Golden Spread’s highly-reliable generated power provides electricity primarily the vast rural areas from the top of the Panhandle south to I-10 near Sonora, and west from the New Mexico line to east and southeast of Abilene.