The Pedernales Electric Cooperative will soon be searching for a new leader after the board of directors accepted the resignation of CEO John Hewa last week.

The move, on a 5-0 vote with directors Amy Akers and Kathryn Skanlon absent, comes roughly a week after Hewa levied allegations of intimidation that he said was directed at PEC employees and executives who publicly opposed racially insensitive comments made by a board director. 

In a joint statement with the PEC board of directors, Hewa, who...