Kentucky Elects First Out House Member, Keturah Herron
The Courier-Journal of Louisville reports. Herron, like Meeks a Democrat, beat Republican Judy Martin Stallard by 1,959 votes to 119 in the Louisville-based district.
She will be sworn in shortly.Herron was previously a policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. In that position, she was instrumental in persuading Louisville to ban no-knock warrants after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor by police in 2020.
She also campaigned for a law limiting such warrants across the state, passed by the legislature last year.“Being a Black queer masculine-presenting woman, this is history.
This matters,” Herron told TV station WDRB. “This matters for all of those folks who across, not just here in Louisville but across the commonwealth, to know that you are able to do that and you have someone that is going to be able to represent you, not just speak on issues, but someone who knows and understands and who’s walked that and so I just look forward to inspiring other folks and open up the doors for other people to be in this space.”Herron will be the only out member of the Kentucky General Assembly.
