MELVIN PHILPOT is a Products & Services Manager for Duke Energy in Lake Mary Florida.  He has been employed with the company for 40 years.  He is currently the Program Manager for the nationally renowned “Neighborhood Energy Saver Program.”

He is very active with many local and state organizations where he serves on the following boards/committees:

• Board of Directors, Agriculture & Labor Program Inc.
• Chairman, City of Sanford Martin Luther King Jr. Steering Committee
• Chairman, Board of Commissioners, Sanford Housing Authority
• Board of Directors, Suncoast Housing Connections
• Secretary, Central Florida Urban League
• Board of Directors, Goldsboro Front Porch project
• Executive Committee, Florida Housing Coalition
• Board of Directors, Rescue Outreach Mission
• Goldsboro Choice Neighborhood Initiative
• Co-founder, Florida Youth Energy Academy

 

Awards:

2003 Progress Energy, Pinnacle Award
2014 Duke Energy, James B. Duke Award
2017 American Association of Blacks In Energy’s Distinguish Service Award
2017 Central Florida Urban League Cornerstone Award
2018 Goldsboro Front Porch Trailblazer Award
2018 United Love Center & Darnell Fryar Foundation Community Service Award
2019 City of Sanford, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Steering Committee Brotherhood Award
2021 Seminole County Delta Sigma Theta Public Service Award