CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS

President | Mike Scogin 
President Elect | Charles Myrick 
Vice President | Allison Shepherd 
Past President | Dennis Brown 
Treasurer | Bruce Maples 

District 1 | Loyd Ford 
District 2 | Mike Alexieff 
District 3 | Regina Catlett 
District 4 | Michelle Rowe 
District 5 | Victoria Cox 
District 6 | Abby Hooven 
District 7 | Neil Belcher 
District 8 | Jennifer Donahue 
District 9 | Cathie Shaffer 
District 10 | Jessica B. Iacono 
District 11 | Mark Hoskins 
District 12 | Charlie VanLeuven 
District 13 | Lucie Chandler 
District 14 | Keith Taylor 

State At-Large | Joe Imel 
State At-Large | Jamie Lucke 
State At-Large | Bruce Maples 
State At-Large | Laura Glasscock 

Press Association Chair | Leigh Wright 

Journalism Education Representative | Chuck Clark 
Journalism Education Representative | Benjy Hamm 

KPA News Editorial Division Chair | Victoria Cox 
KPA Digital Media Division Chair | Ryan Richardson

KPA DIVISION OFFICERS

Advertising Division: Neil Belcher | Falmouth Outlook

Associates Division: VACANT

Audience Development: VACANT

Digital Media Division: Ryan Richardson | Owensboro Times

Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association: Ryan Craig | Kentucky Kernel

News Editorial Division: Victoria Cox | LaRue County Herald News

JOURNALISM EDUCATION REPRESENTATIVES

Chuck Clark | College Heights Herald

Benjy Hamm | 

PAST PRESIDENTS

Kentucky Press Association, Inc., was organized in Frankfort in January 1869, with the election of the distinguished George P. Prentice as president. The following persons have served as president of the association since then:

2025 | Dennis Brown
2024 | Jane Ashley Pace
2023 | Glenn Gray
2022 | Regina Catlett
2021 | Sharon Burton
2020 | Jeff Jobe
2019 | Jay Nolan
2018 | Peter Baniak
2017 | Ryan Craig
2016 | Loyd Ford
2015 | Rick Welch
2014 | Scott Schurz, Jr.
2013 | Willie Sawyers
2012 | John Mura
2011 | Jamie Sizemore
2010 | Chip Hutcheson
2009 | Edmund Shelby
2008 | Taylor Hayes
2007 | Kriss Johnson
2006 | Alice Rouse
2005 | Charlie Portmann*
2004 | John Nelson
2003 | Sharon Tuminski
2002 | Dave Eldridge
2001 | Marty Backus*
2000 | Teresa Revlett
1999 | Tom Caudill
1998 | Guy Hatfield*
1997 | Gene Clabes*
1996 | John Del Santo*
1995 | Dorothy Abernathy
1994 | Steve Lowery*
1993 | Jerry Lyles
1992 | Mary Schurz*
1991 | Celia McDonald*
1990 | David Hawpe*
1989 | Larry Craig*
1988 | Steve Austin
1987 | Max Heath*
1986 | Betty Berryman*
1985 | Floe Bowles*
1984 | Lewis Owens*
1983 | John Munford, Sr.*
1982 | Donald B. Towles*
1981 | Russell Metz*
1980 | Walter Dear, II*
1979 | Paul E. Mick*
1978 | Carroll Knicely*
1977 | William E. Matthews*
1976 | Robert C. Carter*
1975 | Albert P. Smith, Jr.*
1974 | W.E. Crutcher*
1973 | James L. Crawford*
1972 | Ben E. Boone, III*
1971 | Al. J. Schansberg*
1970 | James T. Norris, Jr.*
1969 | George Wilson*
1968 | Howard H. Ogles*
1967 | S.C. Van Curon*
1966 | Larry Stone*
1965 | Maurice Henry*
1964 | George Joplin, III*
1963 | Fred J. Burkhard*
1962 | John B. Gaines*
1961 | W. Foster Adams*
1960 | Paul Westpheling*
1959 | Thomas Adams*
1958 | Martin Dyche*
1957 | Alfred S. Wathen, Jr.*
1956 | Charles E. Adams*
1955 | Wm. C. Caywood, Jr.*
1954 | James G. Wilson*
1953 | Enos Swain*
1952 | Bennett Roach*
1951 | Douglas D. Cornette*
1950 | Joe La Gore*
1949 | James M. Willis*
1948 | Fred B. Wachs*
1947 | Tyler Munford*
1946 | Harold A. Browning*
1945 | Chauncey Forgey*
1944 | Joe Richardson*
1943 | Vance Armentrout*
1942 | Harry Lee Waterfield*
1941 | Russell Dyche*
1940 | G.M. Pedley*
1939 | Thomas R. Underwood*
1938 | J.L. Bradley*
1937 | J.P. Gozder*
1936 | J.L. Crawford*
1935 | A. Robbins*
1934 | George A. Joplin, Jr.*
1933 | Lawrence W. Hager*
1932 | J.T. Norris*
1931 | Joe T. Lovett*
1930 | Herndon J. Evans*
1929 | J.M. Allen*
1928 | B.B. Cozine*
1927 | Malcolm Bayley*
1926 | Cecil Williams*
1925 | Keen Johnson*
1924 | S.M. Saufley, Sr.*
1923 | L.S. Fitzhugh*
1922 | G.B. Senff*
1921 | W.L. Dawson*
1920 | R.L. Elkin*
1919 | B.F. Forgey*
1918 | D.M. Hutton*
1917 | Robert J. McBryde, Jr.*
1916 | John B. Gaines*
1915 | J.B. Stears*
1914 | J.R. Lemon*
1913 | John S. Lawrence*
1912 | Ed D. Shinnick*
1911 | W.B Holdman*
1910 | A. D Miller*
1909 | T.C. Underwood*
1908 | Tim Needham*
1907 | Lew B. Brown*
1906 | D.W. Wallace*
1905 | E.A. Guillion*
1904 | Louis Landrum*
1903 | Paul M. Moore*
1902 | Thomas G. Watkins*
1901 | Harry McCarty*
1900 | R.W. Brown*
1899 | J.H. Westover*
1898 | H.E. Woolfolk*
1897 | L.W. Gaines*
1896 | Ben D. Ringo*
1895 | John A. Bell*
1894 | Ion B. Nall*
1893 | Sam J. Roberts*
1892 | C.H. Meacham*
1891 | H.A. Sommers*
1890 | Urey Woodson*
1887-89 | E. Polk Johnson*
1885-86 | John W. Hopper*
1871-84 | J. Stoddard Johnson*
1870 | A.G. Hodges*
1869 | George D. Prentice*

*Denotes past presidents that are now deceased.