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Kathryn Mattingly Webster
Kathryn Mattingly Webster ran for election for judge of the Kentucky 22nd Circuit Court 7th Division. She lost in the primary on May 17, 2022.
Mattingly Webster completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kathryn Mattingly Webster was born in Kentucky. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky in 2006 and a law degree from Northern Kentucky University in 2011. Her career experience includes working as an attorney.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Lexington, Kentucky (2022)
General election
General election for Kentucky 22nd Circuit Court 7th Division
Diane Minnifield defeated incumbent Jeffrey Taylor in the general election for Kentucky 22nd Circuit Court 7th Division on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Diane Minnifield (Nonpartisan) | 63.2 | 46,328 | |
 | Jeffrey Taylor (Nonpartisan) | 36.8 | 27,031 | |
| Total votes: 73,359 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Kentucky 22nd Circuit Court 7th Division
Diane Minnifield and incumbent Jeffrey Taylor defeated Kim Green, Kathryn Mattingly Webster, and Michael T. Davis in the primary for Kentucky 22nd Circuit Court 7th Division on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Diane Minnifield (Nonpartisan) | 29.0 | 11,523 | |
| ✔ | | Jeffrey Taylor (Nonpartisan) | 24.3 | 9,666 |
 | Kim Green (Nonpartisan) | 22.4 | 8,929 | |
| Kathryn Mattingly Webster (Nonpartisan) | 15.5 | 6,172 | ||
| Michael T. Davis (Nonpartisan) | 8.8 | 3,492 | ||
| Total votes: 39,782 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Kathryn Mattingly Webster completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mattingly Webster's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Kathryn has spent her career as a public servant in the Fayette County Commonwealth's Attorneys office where she has focused primarily on cases dealing with women, children, and domestic violence.
- Kathryn is the only candidate who has been in the courtroom as a victim, a witness, and an attorney and that gives her the most unique perspective on the judicial system and how it can be made better for everyone in it.
- KAt believes that the court can be more accessible to community members, and can help the community solve larger, more systemic problems instead of being reactionary, and disconnected. She believes that the law should apply to everyone regardless of status, but at the same time the court can do more to stop the cycle of violence and incarceration that she has seen play out within families for many years. In addition to these larger goals, Kathryn will work to: (1) Reduce the backlog in criminal and civil cases caused by the pandemic, Set up a court for addressing domestic violence issues between partners and families. The court would supervise convicted domestic batterers post-sentencing to ensure that they are complying with pr
In terms of sentencing reform, Mattingly said she’s interested in drug and mental health treatment and services to help offenders with reentering the workforce. “Our judges need to be open to alternatives for nonviolent offenders,” she said.
She said she’s also interested in bail reform. “Historically, cash bail can result in over-incarceration of people of color and people who live below the poverty line,” she said, noting that electronic monitoring can help make sure people return to court.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 16, 2022
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