Executive Officers

OCSEA Statewide Officers include President Chris Mabe, Vice President Kelvin Jones, and Secretary-Treasurer Kathy Stewart.

These three officers form OCSEA's Executive Committee and lead the day-to-day functions of the organization.

Chris Mabe,  President

Kelvin Jones,  Vice President

Kathy Stewart  Secretary-Treasurer

PRESIDENT
Long-time union activist
Chris Mabe is a Corrections Sergeant at the Lorain Correctional Institution. He served as OCSEA’s Vice President since 2007.

With over 20 years in Ohio’s prison system, Mabe has been a long-time opponent of private prisons and more recently has been active in opposing massive prison privatization and closures as well as overcrowding and un- derstaffing in the state’s prison system.

Mabe has been an outspoken opponent of attacks to collective bargaining rights for public employees and has been a lead activist in the fight to repeal Senate Bill 5.

As chair of the OCSEA Veterans Affairs Committee of the OCSEA Board of Directors, he led his committee in the development of a successful Veterans Conference. While the 2011 Conference was postponed as OCSEA focused its resources on fighting attacks from the State House, Mabe expects the event to become an annual staple of OCSEA’s commitment to all veterans. Mabe served over seven years active duty for the military, including one tour of duty in Desert Storm.

Mabe has also served as District President and President of the Lorain Correctional Chapter.

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VICE PRESIDENT
Kelvin Jones works for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency as an Equipments Coordinator. He’s been with the agency for 23 years. Jones is OCSEA’s statewide Vice President and has been a member of the Statewide Board of Directors for more than 12 years. He has been elected to numerous Bargaining Teams and has been the President and Vice President of EPA Chapter 2528. He has also served as an Executive Board member of the EPA Assembly until this year.

Jones is the current Co-Chair for the Combined Charitable Campaign, a position he has held for eleven. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Ohio United Way.

He serves as the Chair for OCSEA’s Professional Advisory Committee representing professional staff in OCSEA’s bargaining units such as IT professionals, attorneys, technicians and other workers. He is also a member of AFSCME International’s Judicial Panel.

He’s also an official for Ohio High School Athletic Association and officiates for numerous high school athletic events in Ohio.

He is also a community service advocate for the CBTU and has served as chair for their Church and Community Relations Committee and their Community Action Responding Against Toxins Committee, which deals with environmental injustice.

Jones is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and also a member of the “greatest fraternity in the world,” Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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SECRETARY TREASURER  
Kathy Stewart has served in the position of OCSEA Secretary-Treasurer for nearly a decade and was recently elected to a third four-year term. As secretary-treasurer, she protects the assets of the union and stands up for the rights of the membership.

As an employee of the State of Ohio prior to collective bargaining, Kathy understands what it was like to work without a voice and without a union. She has served on past negotiation teams taking Ohio’s public employees from collective begging to collective bargaining.

In Stewart’s position as an Accountant/Examiner 3 with the Dept. of Administrative Services, she is responsible for millions of dollars of construction funds for the State of Ohio.

She became involved in the union as a steward in 1986. She served as president of her DAS Chapter 2570 from 1987 until being elected OCSEA Secretary-Treasurer in 2003. She is a former District 6 Council Secretary and has served on the OCSEA Board of Directors since 1987. She is the Chair of the OCSEA Board of Director’s Finance Committee. She is the past Chair of OCSEA’s Women’s Action Committee. She is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Ohio Union Label and Service Trades Council, Vice President of the State Union Label Council, member of the Ohio AFL- CIO Executive Board and sits on the AFSCME Women’s Committee.

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