Jack McCaslin began serving as a director in March 1993.  He was raised in Wolfe City, Texas and attended Southern Methodist University on a track scholarship.  He graduated from SMU in 1961 with a Bachelor of Business in accounting and obtained his CPA (Certified Public Accountant) designation in 1966.  Presently, Mr. McCaslin owns an accounting firm in Fort Worth with 30 employees and resides in Alvarado.

Larry Bays began serving as a director in 1983. He holds the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Certified Credentialed Director certificate and Board Leadership certificate. A graduate of Lingleville High School, he currently resides in Dublin, Texas. A diversified farmer, Mr. Bays raises cattle, hay, silage, nursery shade trees on 3,000 acres in Erath County. Since 2005, he has represented United on the Brazos Electric Cooperative (a generation and transmission cooperative supplying wholesale electric power to UCS and 16 other cooperatives) where he is a member of the executive committee and serves as chair of the Power Supply Committee. He served on an elected county committee for the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (now called the Farm Service Agency) for nine years, serving as chairman for eight of those years. Mr. Bays also served as Lingleville ISD’s school board president for 13 years, retiring in May, 2003.

Patsy Dumas began serving as a director in 1990.  Mrs. Dumas has been in the banking industry since 1965 and is currently a vice president and loan officer at First National Bank in Burleson.  She has also worked for the Farmers and Merchants State Bank and the Cow Pasture Bank in Burleson. Mrs. Dumas was named Burleson Citizen of the Year in 1990 and was the first in her area to win the Athena Award – a national award for women.  She has served on the Huguley Advisory Council since 1992 and spent several terms on the board of the Burleson Area Chamber of Commerce.  Mrs. Dumas is a past-president of her local American Cancer Society Unit, the Burleson Rotary Club and a Business and Professional Women group.  She is also on the Character First Steering Committee of Burleson and on the Burleson Beautification Council.

Tommy Cantrell was named to the United Board of Directors in October 2005. He is a resident of the Morgan Mill–Bluff Dale area.  He graduated from Stephenville High School in 1967 and earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Tarleton State University in 1972. Following college, he was employed with the Texas Department of Agriculture where he served as a general inspector, pesticide specialist, grain warehouse specialist, assistant supervisor, a training specialist and office manager before he retired in 2003. He served on the Morgan Mill School Board from 1990 -1995. He has been a member of the Morgan Mill Volunteer Fire Department since 1989, a member of the Erath County Fire Fighters Association since 1990, and he also organized the Morgan Mill First Responders in 1995.  

Clifford Deal has served as director since 1981. He has lived in the Happy Hill community near Alvarado since early childhood. Mr. Deal was employed by Western Electric Company for 30 years, with two years spent in the U.S. Army. During this time, he also operated dairy farms in Johnson and Bosque Counties. In 1998, he sold the dairy cows and developed Cliffwood Estates on a portion of his farm in Johnson County. He formerly owned and operated Union Hill Sand and Gravel in Bosque County. Mr. Deal has previously served on the boards of Brazos Electric Cooperative, Texas Agricultural Cooperative Council, ACRE/Rural Friends, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., and Johnson County Farm Bureau. He has also served on the Bosque River Advisory Committee and the District 58 Agricultural Advisory Committee.

Johnnie Rollins began serving as a director in February 1987.  He graduated from Granbury High School in 1951 and is a farmer and rancher in Hood County.  Mr. Rollins has been a member of the Hood-Parker Soil Conservation District Board for about 20 years.  He has served on the Granbury Independent School District Board of Trustees and is a member and past chairman of the Southwest Peanut Growers’ Association Board.  Mr. Rollins also served as an alternate member of the National Peanut Advisory Committee, State Peanut Grower Representative on the Agricultural Council and the Texas Agricultural Forum. 

Casey Tipps began serving as director in 1994.  He graduated from Jourdanton High School and has lived near Possum Kingdom Lake for nearly 35 years.  Mr. Tipps worked for several years as a quality assurance inspector at Mason & Hanger – Silas Mason Company, producing and maintaining atomic bombs.  He is a former member of the Lions Club and served as their president for three years.  He is also a council member at the Possum Kingdom Community Church and a member of the Mineral Wells American Legion.  Mr. Tipps currently works two days a week at the local senior citizen’s club and enjoys fishing and gardening.

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