Who is on Lexington’s Redistricting Commission?
After Census results are released each decade, the Vice Mayor’s Office begins the local redistricting process by asking each council member to pick a resident from their district to represent their constituents. This group of residents works with the city’s mapping department to draw new district boundaries.
The following residents were appointed by their Council Members for the 2021 Redistricting Process:
Chair - Bill Wilson (appointed by VM Kay)
Retired Associate Vice President for Development and Major Gifts, University of Kentucky
At-Large - Don Todd
Personal Injury Attorney and Former Council Member
At-Large - Andrea Schoninger
District 1 - Andria Jackson (appointed by James Brown)
Community Engagement Coordinator at the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
District 2 - Rock Daniels (appointed by Josh McCurn)
Realtor and Property Developer
District 3 - Matthew Wilson (appointed by Hannah LeGris)
Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University (full disclosure: Matthew Wilson is a CivicLex Programmatic Board Member)
District 4 - Brenda Monarrez (appointed by Susan Lamb)
Emerge Kentucky 2012 Alumna
District 5 - Anne Donworth (appointed by Liz Sheehan)
Development Officer, Lexington Public Library
District 6 - Pat Tatum (appointed by David Kloiber)
Former Call Center Director, LFUCG
District 7 - Marcus Patrick (appointed by Preston Worley)
Director of Urban Impact, Lexington Leadership Foundation
District 8 - Carol Kargel (appointed by Fred Brown)
Secretary & Treasurer, Southeastern Hills Neighborhood Association
District 9 - Kim Justus (appointed by Whitney Eliot Baxter)
Office Manager, Blue & Co.
District 10 - J.L. Lynn (appointed by Amanda Bledsoe)
Owner, Lynn Imaging & Monster Color
District 11 - Christine Smith (appointed by Jennifer Reynolds)
Executive Director, Seedleaf
District 12 - Joe Nallia (appointed by Kathy Plomin)
Farm Manager, Walnut Hall Stock Farm