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.
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