Richard G. Johnstone Jr. handed over the reins of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives this week, retiring after 36 years.

Johnstone served as president and CEO of the 76-year-old, Glen-Allen based organization, which represents 15 member-owned electric cooperatives. His replacement, Brian S. Mosier, was announced in January and took over April 1.

Johnstone, 65, also held the position of executive editor at the association’s magazine, Cooperative Living. As its longest-tenured member editor, serving from 1985 to 2005, Johnstone tripled the association publication’s circulation to 600,000. (By comparison, the state’s highest-circulation newspaper, the Sunday edition of The Washington Post, with 355,100 subscribers, according to the Virginia Press Association.)

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