(SALEM, OR) -- The Salem Electric Board of Directors (Ore.) announced that
effective May 1, 2014, Terry M. Kelly will become Salem Electric’s new general
manager, replacing Robert J. Speckman who will retire on April 30, 2014.
Kelly, who began work as a contract employee for Salem
Electric, was hired in 1983 as an energy analyst, was named senior energy
analyst in 1984, and promoted to Member Services manager in 1997. In January
2011, he was named assistant general manager.
Throughout his career Kelly has served on numerous boards
and committees and currently serves as president of the West Salem Business
Association in addition to his ongoing work with the Travel Salem Board, Polk
County Sanctions Court, and various City of Salem and Salem-Keizer School
District committees. In 1998, Kelly received the City of Salem Distinguished
Service Award and in 2004 the City of Salem Vern Miller Key Citizen Award.
Kelly has also participated in several industry-related
organizations, including NWPPA, where he was awarded the 2007 Lacy People’s
Award for a lifetime commitment to the public power industry, and the Oregon
Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where he was awarded the Rural
Electrification Award for outstanding achievement communicating the benefits of
electric cooperative membership in 2009.
Speckman was a lobbyist for ORECA from 1978 until when he
was hired as the Customer & Community relations manager for Salem Electric
in 1982. In 1988, he was appointed assistant general manager, and in 1997 he
became general manager. Speckman has also served on many community boards of
directors and is currently president-elect of the Salem Art Association Board
of Directors. He has also served on industry-related boards and committees and
is a past-president of NWPPA.
