County Judge/Executive

Party affiliation of County Judge/Executives after the 2022 elections.
     Republican
     Democratic
     Independent

A County Judge/Executive (or simply, Judge/Executive, and often written Judge-Executive) is an elected official in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky who is the head of the executive branch of a government in a county.[1] The Judge/Executive is an ex officio member of the Fiscal Court, the county's legislature. The position is established by section 140 of the Kentucky Constitution.[2] In other states, similar positions are often titled county executive or county mayor.

  1. ^ Kleber, John E., ed. (1992). "Counties". The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0.
  2. ^ "The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Informational Bulletin No. 59" (PDF). Kentucky Legislative Research Commission. October 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2007-02-08.