The justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court voted Tuesday to elect Justice Laurance B. VanMeter as their next chief justice.
He will begin serving a four-year term Jan. 2nd and will succeed Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr., who is retiring after 14 years as the head of the court and judicial branch.
Kentucky’s chief justice paid $147,362.Chief Justice-elect Laurence VanMeterVanMeter was born in 1958 in Lexington and was raised in Winchester. He received his undergraduate degree with a major in history in 1980 from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of…
