A&N Electric Cooperative directors are elected from the membership to represent them on the board. Directors are elected to three-year terms and elections are held every year. This year the cooperative will hold an election for two board director seats in August. The cooperative’s bylaws govern the director election process and annual meeting .
District 1 Candidates
Mark A. Hickman – District 1
Mark Hickman, currently serving as an A&N Board Member, representing District 1, was first appointed in 2022. He resides in northern Accomack County.
Born and raised in Horntown, Va., Hickman is a 2004 graduate of Chincoteague High School. He holds an associate degree from Virginia Tech in landscape design and turf management.
After graduating from Virginia Tech, he returned to the Eastern Shore to work on his fifth-generation family farm, Dublin Farms. The farm grows Virginia Grown potatoes that go directly to east coast markets and retail grocery stores. His family also cultivates snap beans for both processing and fresh markets, as well as corn and soybeans for poultry feed. Hickman is Chairman of the Virginia Potato Board and Vice Chairman of the
Association of Eastern Virginia Agricultural Producers.
Hickman earned his Credentialed Cooperative Director (CCD) Certificate in December 2022. He serves on both the A&N Bylaw/Policy Board Committee and the Member Services/ Community Development Board Committee.
An avid outdoorsman, Hickman spends his free time hunting, fishing and boating around the Chincoteague Bay. He and his wife, Nicolette, have four children: Chandler, Lilly, Ellie and Kendyl.
District 3 Candidates
Addison W. Nottingham, Jr. – District 3
Add Nottingham currently serves as the A&N Board of Directors Chairman, representing District 3, and is a member of the following A&N Board Committees: Executive Committee, Bylaw/Policy Committee, Finance Committee and Member Services/Community Development Committee. He also serves as Chairman of the Members Helping Members Board of Directors.
Nottingham has attended several national and state cooperative meetings and is enrolled in the NRECA’s Electric Cooperative Director’s Institute, having renewed his Credential Director’s Gold Certificate in 2024.
A retired local farmer, Nottingham served on the Marva Farm Credit Board and retired from the Eastern Shore Soil and Water Conservation. He is former president of the Exmore Rotary Club as well as former Treasurer of the Virginia Potato and Vegetable Growers Association. Nottingham is a member of the Franktown United Methodist Church, where he formerly served as Chairman and now serves on the Nominating Committee. He also serves on the Northampton County Agricultural Forestal District Advisory (AFD) board. He and his wife, Cheryl, reside on Holly Grove Farm located in Nassawadox, Virginia.