Second Thursday Program - Guest Speaker: Chief Justice Laurance B. VanMeter

For our FREE second Thursday program next week, Chief Justice Laurance B. VanMeter will be speaking on his research on the history of bluegrass seed in Kentucky and particularly here in Clark County. Should be a very informative and interesting program. As always, there will be refreshments after the program and the public is always invited.

Chief Justice Laurance B. VanMeter will present a History of Bluegrass Seed at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum on April 11 at 6:30 p.m. The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. Chief Justice VanMeter has spent much of his time researching the history of Bluegrass Seed in Clark County.
Chief Justice VanMeter 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 J.D. in 1983 from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Kentucky Law Journal. More recently, he earned an LL.M. degree, May 2020, from Duke University School of Law and, in July 2020, was elected to The American Law Institute.
Laurance B. VanMeter was elected to the Kentucky Supreme Court in November 2016 from the 5th Appellate District, then comprising Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Scott, and Woodford Counties. Upon taking office on January 2, 2017, he became just the third Justice to have served at all four levels of Kentucky unified court system. His fellow justices elected him as Chief Justice of the Commonwealth for a four-year term that started in January 2023.