I could reminisce here about Kristen Ellis, a Gallatin gal who must feel on top of the world today. I could mention her wearing the Red & Black while playing third base for the Bulldog softball team. I still can hear in memory’s ear her sweet voice filling the auditorium singing before the judges at state music contest before graduating from GHS in 1999. But I don’t want to embarrass her.
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Instead, I want to add my congratulations to Ms. Ellis after her successful bid to be elected yesterday as Prosecuting Attorney of Lafayette County.
Kristen carried a 55% majority over her opponent, Chip Perry, who previously served as prosecutor there although that was decades ago. The official vote count was Ellis 5,245 and Perry 4,263.
Although Kristen was serving as the full-time prosecuting attorney from offices at the county seat of Lexington, this will be her first term as an elected prosecutor. She was appointed interim prosecutor in August 2013, when the position became vacant.
The vote totals confirm that Lafayette County is larger than Daviess County. A number of assistant prosecutors comprise the office. That’s how Kristen got her start there, in 2009. The case load is substantial, boosted by the courtroom traffic that I-70 brings into that county.
The “new” river bridge on Highway 13 means you can easily bypass Lexington now as you journey south. That means fewer chances for most of us to see the Civil War cannon ball still lodged in one of the columns of the Lafayette County courthouse. But now we have another thing or two to think about whenever we pass by Lexington – a good thing, a hometown gal who isn’t bashful about remembering her roots, who’s going forward doing good things professionally at her offices at Lexington, as well as within Higginsville Rotary, Pi Nu Sorority and Chapter EK PEO, and at First Baptist Church in Higginsville.
Congratulations, Kristen. No doubt law enforcement concerns will ease with you at the prosecutor’s helm.