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FIRST DISTRICT

Canada

Russell N. Shewchuk

Russell N. Shewchuk

International Vice President

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SECOND DISTRICT

CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT

Michael P. Monahan

Michael P. Monahan

International Vice President

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THIRD DISTRICT

DE, NJ, NY, PA

Dennis C. Affinati

Dennis C. Affinati

International Vice President

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FOURTH DISTRICT

DC, KY, MD, OH, VA & WV

Gina P. Cooper

Gina P. Cooper

International Vice President

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FIFTH DISTRICT

AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, PR

Glenn Brannen

Glenn Brannen

International Vice President

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SIXTH DISTRICT

IL, IN, MI, MN, WI

Michael Clemmons

Michael Clemmons

International Vice President

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SEVENTH DISTRICT

AZ, KS, NM, OK, TX

Chrisitan J. Wagner

Chrisitan J. Wagner

International Vice President

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EIGHTH DISTRICT

CO, ID, MT, UT, WY

Jerry Bellah

Jerry Bellah

International Vice President

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NINTH DISTRICT

AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA

David E. Reaves, Jr.

David E. Reaves, Jr.

International Vice President

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TENTH DISTRICT

AR, NC, SC, TN

Brent E. Hall

Brent E. Hall

International Vice President

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ELEVENTH DISTRICT

IA, MO, NE, ND, SD

Mark D. Hager

Mark D. Hager

International Vice President

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International Vice Presidents

Russ Shewchuck

Russ Shewchuck

International Vice-President
First District

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Michael P. Monahan

Michael P. Monahan


International Vice-President
second District

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Frank Muia

Dennis Affinati


International Vice-President
third District

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Gina P. Cooper

Gina P. Cooper

International Vice-President
Fourth District

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Glenn Brannen


International Vice-President
Fifth District

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Michael Clemmons

Michael Clemmons

International Vice-President
Sixth District

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Chrisitan J. Wagner

Christian J. Wagner

International Vice-President
Seventh District

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Jerry Bellah

Jerry Bellah

International Vice-President
Eight District

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David E. Reaves Jr.

David E. Reaves Jr.

International Vice-President
Ninth District

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Brent E. Hall

Brent E. Hall

International Vice-President
tenth District

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Mark D. Hager

Mark Hager

International Vice-President
Eleventh District

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International Executive Council

Christopher Erikson

Christopher Erikson

Chairman
  • IBEW Local Union 3
158-11
    Harry Van Arsdale Jr Ave.
    4th Fl
Flushing, NY 11365
  • (718) 591-4000
Joseph P. Calabro

Joseph P. Calabro

First District
  • IBEW Local Union 1158
1149
    Bloomfield Avenue

    Clifton, NJ 07012
  • (973) 773-3336

Myles J. Calvey

Second District
  • IBEW Local Union 2222
    159 Thomas Burgin Parkway
    3rd Floor
Quincy, MA 02169
  • (617) 929-6000

BILL HAMILTON

Third District

Zachary T. Cassidy

Fourth District

Donald B. Finn

Fifth District
  • IBEW Local Union 134
    2722 S Martin Luther King Dr
    Chicago, IL 60616
  • (312) 454-1340

Mark H. Cunningham

Sixth District

Leroy J. Chincio, Jr.

Seventh District

Tom Griffiths

Eighth District
  • IBEW Local 625
    24 Lakeside Park Drive
    Suite 202
Lakeside
    NS B3T 1L1
  • (902) 450-5625

Minutes of the IEC'S Most Recent MeetingS

The International Executive Council’s meetings are published in an abridged form in The Electrical Worker. For full meeting minutes, please click below.

Executive Assistants

Ricky Oakland

Chief of staff

Louis spencer

Deputy chief of staff

Sherilyn Wright

Senior Executive Assistant 
to the International President

Ryan Reithel

Senior Executive Assistant to
 the International Secretary-Treasurer

Jammi Ouellette

Executive Assistant to the International President

Danielle Eckert

Assistant to the International President for Government Affairs

Author

Kenneth W. Cooper International President

Kenneth W. Cooper

IBEW International President

Kenneth W. Cooper has served as IBEW International President since 2023. A member of the IBEW for more than 40 years, he got his start in the union as an apprentice with Local 688 in Mansfield, Ohio. 

He served in many roles in his local union, including steward, vice president, and president, before being elected business manager in 1993.  

Under his leadership, Local 688 prospered, construction market share grew, and organizing increased, including a 200-person manufacturing facility.  

In 2002, Cooper relocated to Las Vegas, where he served as assistant business manager of Local 396. There, he helped organize five units at Nevada Power Company and a new power-generating plant in Apex.  

Four years later, President Edwin D. Hill appointed him as an international representative for the IBEW’s Fourth District, which covers Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.  

In 2011, President Hill recognized his leadership and recommended him to serve as Fourth District International Vice President.  

Delegates to the 38th International Convention elected him to a full term, and he was re-elected in 2016 at the 39th International Convention in St. Louis.  

A year later, thanks to his persistence and leadership, the IBEW celebrated one of its biggest organizing wins when more than 1,400 Baltimore Gas and Electric utility workers voted to join the Brotherhood.  

International President Lonnie R. Stephenson invited Cooper to join him as International Secretary-Treasurer in 2017, and delegates overwhelmingly elected him to a full term in 2022. 

Upon Stephenson’s retirement in 2023, members of the International Executive Council supported Cooper as the IBEW’s next International President.  

During his tenure, the IBEW has broken organizing records, recruiting tens of thousands of electrical workers each year, growing at rates not seen in more than 50 years. 

He has also enhanced the IBEW’s voice in Washington and state capitals across the nation.  

In 2024, he helped win upgraded pension benefits for members and created the first new IBEW retirement benefit since 1946.  

Cooper serves on the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO and the Governing Board of Presidents for North America’s Building Trades Unions. 

He and his wife, Gina, have three daughters and two sons.  

Paul A. Noble International Secretary-Treasurer

Paul A. Noble

International Secretary-Treasurer

IBEW International Secretary-Treasurer Paul A. Noble’s IBEW career began in 1986, working as a material handler out of St. Louis Local 1 in 1986.

He then joined West Frankfort, Ill. Local 702, working for Contel Telephone, before being accepted into the local’s 5-year Inside Wireman apprenticeship program. 

Noble served as organizer, business representative, and training instructor before becoming business manager in 2006.  

International President Edwin D. Hill appointed Noble as an international representative in the Sixth District – which covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota – in 2010, where he served as Illinois state political coordinator.   

He helped lead two historic pro-worker and pro-jobs wins: the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, which includes some of the strongest pro-worker provisions for the energy industry in the nation, and the Workers’ Rights Amendment, which enshrines collective bargaining rights in the state constitution.  

In 2022, International President Lonnie R. Stephenson appointed him Sixth District Vice President, and he was elected to the position by delegates to the 40th International Convention in Chicago.  

The following year, he was appointed International Secretary Treasurer.  

In his current role, Noble helps lead the IBEW’s health and benefits programs, which have experienced steady growth and rank among the strongest in the electrical industry.  

In 2024, working with International President Kenneth Cooper, he helped shepherd the first NEBF pension increases for members in two decades and create the first new pension benefit since 1946, the NEIB. 

Under his fiscal leadership, the IBEW has grown even stronger as one of the most financially stable and influential unions in the labor movement. 

A lifelong resident of Southern Illinois, he and his wife, Gina, have two daughters and two grandchildren.