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The original Open Records Act request made by the Concerned Members of the KHS asked for the names & contact information
of presiding officers for the purpose of contacting officers regarding issues of concern to the membership. The KHS denied
this request, maintaining the names and contact information of the Executive Committee are private information. The KHS has
yet to provide such information to its members.
This list was obtained when it was published and disseminated by the KHS itself, in the Kentucky Historical Society Chronicle,
Annual Report. One must ask: Why is this information deemed private for members, yet deemed public when the KHS wants it to
be public?
Elizabeth L. "Libby" Jones, President, of Midway
Robert "Mike" Duncan, 1st Vice President, of Inez
Mary Helen Miller, 2nd Vice President, of Shelbyville
Robert E. Rich, 3rd Vice President, of Covington
Bill Black Jr. Of Paducah
J. McCauley Brown, of Harrods Creek
Bennett Clark, of Lexington
Raoul Cunningham, of Louisville
Charles English Sr. Of Bowling Green
Nan Gorman, of Hazard
Wendell H. Ford, of Owensboro
Arthur L. Kelly, of Frankfort
Martha R. Francis, of Stanford
Richard Frymire, of Madisonville
Ed Hamilton, of Louisville
Ann Pennington, of Danville
Dr. Richard Taylor, of Frankfort
J. Harold Utley, of Madisonville
Lawson Walker II, of Crescent Springs
Doris Wilkinson, of Lexington
Eric Brooks, of Lexington
Doug Stern, of Louisville *
* Source: Sarah O. Hall, attorney for the Commerce Cabinet and the KHS. She stated to the Concerned Members that 100%
of the Executive Committee voted to take legal action against the KHS's own members.
ONE WHO PREFERRED NOT TO SUE KHS MEMBERS
George Ward, Secretary of the Kentucky Commerce Cabinet,
the State agency that supervises the KHS.
According to sources inside the Commerce Cabinet, when authorization from him was requested to proceed with suit against the
Concerned Members, he initially declined.
ONE WHO DROVE THE SUIT AGAINST KHS MEMBERS
Kent Whitworth, Executive Director of the KHS
When the Executive Director of the KHS, Kent Whitworth, a second time requested Ward's authorization to proceed with legal
suit against the Concerned Members, Whitworth stated to Ward that the desire to sue was that of the Executive Committee of
the KHS. The Executive Committee already had voted to proceed with legal action not only against the Concerned Members collectively,
but also personally against Eric James, the group's Chairman, individually. Ward subsequently acquiesced.
Employees of the Commerce Cabinet, who also are members of the KHS, informed the Concerned Members that Kent Whitworth
on at least two occasions had disparaged the Concerned Members publicly in Commerce Cabinet offices. The Concerned Members
confronted Whitworth in a meeting with legal counsel Sarah O. Hall and KHS president Libby Jones present, and demanded the
disparagement by Whitworth cease and desist.
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