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Shelbyville attorney joins Prichard Committee
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Shelbyville attorney Sam Hinkle has been named as a member of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.
Hinkle, with the firm of Stoll Keenon Ogden, is also a member of the Shelby County Board of Education. He is among 18 new members of the committee, which advocates for quality education for all Kentuckians. Also joining were:
- Clay Barkley of Louisville, an 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
- 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