Pedernales Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit rural electric distribution, utility cooperative headquartered in Johnson City, Texas, US, set up in 1938.

[2] Julie Caruthers Parsley joined Pedernales Electric Cooperative as chief executive officer in 2017.

She had been a partner at the law firm Parsley Coffin Renner.

She is a former Commissioner of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and focused her law practice on energy-related legal and consulting services in Texas and the Southwest.

In 2016, the cooperative adopted a single-member district voting methodology in which members vote every three years for their district's director seat.