LEXINGTON, Ky. – Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence added 18 new members during its recent fall meeting.
Named to the statewide citizens’ organization were:
• Clay Barkley of Louisville, assistant state attorney general
• Justin Bathon, assistant professor in the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology & Leadership in Education at the University of Kentucky
• Jessica Berry, family and community liaison for Fayette County Public Schools and a graduate of the committee’s Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership (CIPL)
• Candance Castlen Brake of Owensboro, a former city commissioner and deputy county judge executive
• Cory Curl of Versailles, senior fellow for assessment and accountability for Achieve, a national education nonprofit
• Meghan Glynn of Taylor Mill, a CIPL graduate and vice president of external affairs for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
• Sam Hinkle of Shelbyville, an attorney with Stoll Keenon Ogden and a member of the Shelby County Board of Education
• Larry Holladay of Fort Thomas, a CIPL graduate and specialist with the Internal Revenue Service
• Augusta Holland of Louisville, co-developer of The Green Building, one of the state’s first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum-certified buildings, and a partner in the renovation of several other historic buildings
• Suzanne K. Hyden of Prestonsburg, an accountant and owner of Hyden Properties
• Lonnie Lawson of Somerset, president and CEO of the Center for Rural Development
• Norma M. Meek of Ashland, curriculum event coordinator and district parent involvement coordinator for Boyd County Public Schools and Senior Associate, Yale University
• David R. O’Bryan, CPA and director of Blue & Company and former president of the Kentucky Society of CPAs
• Julie Howard Price of Paducah, an attorney and CIPL graduate
• Adrienne Godfrey Thakur, an attorney with Henry Watz Raine & Marino, a CIPL graduate and an officer of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division executive committee
• James C. Votruba of Highland Heights, retired president and professor emeritus of educational leadership at Northern Kentucky University
• Gene Wilhoit of Lawrenceburg, retired executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers and former Kentucky education commissioner
• Kristin Williams of Paducah, owner and principal of KRW Strategies
The committee also elected two new board members:
• Helen Carroll, manager of community relations for Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America in Erlanger and a board member of several organizations, including the Gateway Community and Technical College Foundation and United Way of Kentucky
• Herb Miller, president of Columbia Gas of Kentucky, Inc., headquartered in Lexington, and former general counsel for Kentucky American Water Co.
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