Board of Directors Applicant Form
✅ From: Julian Hawes
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2026 8:24 PM
To: Stelfanie Williams <stelfamie.williams@board.
Cc: Mark Fleming ; Ben McLawhorn ; Chris Ayers ; Chuck Stone ; Michael Clements;
McKinley Wooten Bob Brinson ; Amaka Flynn; cc: Brady, Leigh
Subject: Board Nomination
I noticed on your website that there is a vacancy on the credit unions' board of directors. I would like for the board to nominate me for the vacancy.
As a 50 plus year member and a prior member nominated candidate that garnered the most votes of the four member nominated candidates that ran in 2024, I feel that I am qualified and represent a large constituency of members in several communities.
Respectfully submitted, Julian Hawes ✔ Julian Hawes was the top member-nominated candidate, receiving 31,203 votes, in the last contested SECU Board election (October, 2024).
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Julian HawesBrought up in Wallace, N.C., a man of his word, suffers from a rural N.C. work ethic. Graduated from N.C. State, as an ardent Wolfpack loyalist. Retired after a 30+ year career at SECU, serving as the SVP for eastern N.C. in Goldsboro. SECU's premier lender and loan officer mentor. About lending: "Listen first, decide second; put yourself in the other fellow's shoes; and, the best collateral for a loan is the borrower's character." Expert in finance, but understands the member-value of the $500 salary advance loan program, which he created. Married, now lives in the Winston-Salem area. Still knows how to “prime” tobacco.
OMG so we’re gonna try this again? Don’t recall us asking for applications, and this letter certainly isn’t that. Last thing we need is to back to the future. We don’t need board members that have blood on their hands from toxic loan programs that laid members away.
ReplyDeleteI really admire how you don't let your limitless ignorance affect your confidence.
Deletesure seems like 3:57 is going stir crazy from the weather ....
Deletea messenger of the new/new worldview that seeks to redefine SECU into "their" credit union...
DeleteI know. Thank you! I’m skilled at not letting the ignorants around me (old/old) influence my thinking. Just trying to bring truth and facts to this forum. Sorry if you can’t follow or it offends you. If can’t think for yourself, you might as well let someone else do it for you.
Delete9:38. That’s basically it. We need folks thinking about the future - not dwelling in the pasts this whole blog is filled with people who just think about yet good ole days, but remember far to favorably than reality. SECU was large - no one can despute that, but it was a mediocre credit union at best. At least under us we’re on the right path. Hayes set the ball in motion
Deleteyep, you rule the roost until you are devoured by the wolves of Wall Street ...
DeleteDon’t let SECU say they care about employees safety. They do not.
ReplyDeleteWe'll let you know what you need to know
ReplyDeletePerkins vacated her seat? Do we have any idea why?
ReplyDeleteI don’t know Ms. Perkins personally but I know people who do. For over two years she was treated horribly by the other Board members and some of the Executive Leadership team - talked down to, ignored, ostracized and bullied just because her views were different from theirs and she was not part of the “in” club since she was member elected. Unlike Michael Clements and Chuck Stone (the other member-elected Board members) she did not sell out. She maintained her core beliefs and always represented the people that elected her. Anyone with less character and resilience would have thrown in the towel long ago. She will always have many members (and staff) respect for what she did under very trying conditions.
DeleteThat’s what folks don’t get. They don’t sell out. They see real facts and data and make informed decisions. Easy for people to come in this blog and whine and complain about decisions being made, as well as to just make stuff up. It’s cowardly. In fact. Whole different story when you have legal liability and you’re dealing with the full picture and right information. Clements is on record saying this about RBP. He gained a different view once he had a true source of information other than the the hyperbole, rants, and misinformation on this blog.
Delete@8:20AM All board members are member-elected.
Delete@8:52 - your condescension, arrogance and ignorance knows no bounds. Congrats! The Trifecta
Delete10:00 am 4 SECU board candidates were Board-selected in 2025, none were member-elected. Sorry no member votes were cast
Delete10:16.. hurts to hear the truth, doesn’t it?
Delete@8:52 They see [selected] facts and data and make [influenced] decisions. I fixed it for you.
DeleteRe the 1/16/2026 TrollTwit post: Hadn't bothered to post this remark, but since it appears today is going to be full-of twit... for the record:
ReplyDeleteFrom the twit: "Credit unions can sell all or some of their assets. If they sell of their assets, that's a dissolution. The topic, however, is about mergers. 54-109.95 says that all the assets, liabilities and membership are assumed (not bought) by the surviving credit union."
The twit somehow believes that no one will notice that the twit lives in fantasy land or can't read. Here's what the NC law actually says:
"§ 54-109.95. Conversion of charter.
a) A credit union chartered under the laws of this State may be converted to a credit union chartered under the laws of any other state or under the laws of the United States, subject to regulations issued by the Administrator of the Credit Union Division.
(b) A credit union chartered under the laws of the United States or of any other state may convert to a credit union chartered under the laws of this State. To effect such a conversion, a credit union must comply with all the requirements of the jurisdiction under which it was originally chartered and the requirements of the Administrator of Credit Unions and file proof of such compliance with said Administrator. (1965, c. 956, s. 9; 1975, c. 538, s. 1.) "
If you just read all that and thought "I don't get it? This lwa has nothing to do with mergers!" Relax, you actually do get it... you're dealing with a trolltwit.
Entirely un and incredible.
From same twit: "So if you continue to think a credit union can buy another credit union as entity, you are dead wrong."
DeleteFortunately not wrong at all....[https://www.secujustasking.com/2025/12/troll-twits.html#comment-form ]
""§ 54-109.21.(10) Sell all or substantially all of its assets or purchase all or substantially all of the assets of another financial institution, subject to the approval of the Administrator of Credit Unions; "
Twit is at home alone with the roads iced over... could be a long day!
pray for sunshine .... ;)
DeleteWell, 10:00 a.m. Twit-er-er! Seems 10:16 a.m. had it nailed. Another member-elected board member?
ReplyDelete"From: Board Corporate Secretary
Date: January 20, 2026 at 2:25:17 PM
To: Julian Hawes
Subject: Re: Board Nomination"
"Dear Mr. Hawes,
Thank you fo your interest. SECU’s bylaws provide that vacancies on the Board shall be filled by a vote of a majority of the directors then holding office.
The Board recently selected an individual to fill the vacancy at its meeting on December 16, 2025.
Upon taking office later this month, the appointee to the Board will serve in this position only until the next annual meeting.
We will plan to announce the new Board member once they take office."
https://businessnc.com/director-leaves-secu-board-citing-unnamed-policy-differences/?utm_source=Business+North+Carolina+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=a95e34728e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_8_12_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7ae5defd0d-a95e34728e-122910649
ReplyDeleteThis is why the Nominating Committee should be left alone to do their job. Self-nominated either can’t hack it (Perkins) or the are horrible under-qualified (all 4 from 2024), or both.
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