Director Candidates

2025 Board of Director Candidates

NineStar Connect is governed by an elected Board of Directors. Their sole mission is to deliver the highest quality, most efficient services to our cooperative’s membership—and they don’t serve corporate shareholders, customers, or declare stock dividends. Click to view our board districts. 

Meet the candidates. Click below to learn more about their background and why they believe they have what it takes to serve the members of NineStar.

District 2

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Mark Evans

Background & Candidate Statement

District 6

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Joe Paxton

Background & Candidate Statement

District 9

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Philip Hayes

Background & Candidate Statement

  

District 10

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Thomas Ording

Background & Candidate Statement

At-Large C

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Susan Bodkin

Background & Candidate Statement
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Chris Gray

Background & Candidate Statement
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John Samples

Background & Candidate Statement

Vote for Board of Directors

Voting is open February 24th – March 12th by 5pm. 

Click Vote Now to vote for your 2025 board of director candidates.

Click HERE for instructions on how to vote.

  • Receive a $10 Bill Credit OR Dinner at the Annual Meeting
  • Be entered to win $5,000 on cash prizes or $2,500 in giveaways.
  • No voting will take place the night of the Annual Meeting
VOTE March 1st

The co-op Difference

NineStar Connect is a nonprofit electric and communications cooperative, so we don’t sell to customers or work for shareholders. Instead, we have members who are actually our owners.

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The co-op Difference

NineStar Connect is a nonprofit electric and communications cooperative, so we don’t sell to customers or work for shareholders. Instead, we have members who are actually our owners.

Learn More