Katrina Sexton
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Katrina Sexton is an officeholder of the Burgin Independent School school board At-large in Kentucky.
Sexton (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives to represent District 55. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Sexton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Katrina Sexton was born in Danville, Kentucky. She earned an associate degree from St. Catharine College in 2000, a bachelor's degree from Eastern Kentucky University in 2004, and a Ph.D. from Eastern Kentucky University in 2016. Her career experience includes working as an educator.[1]
Sexton has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- KEA
- KSBA
- Golden Key
- NSHSS
- KDP
- Omega Nu Lambda
- National Association of Professional Women
- Phi Alpha Theta
- Phi Theta Kappa
Elections
2024
See also: Kentucky House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 55
Incumbent Kim King defeated Katrina Sexton in the general election for Kentucky House of Representatives District 55 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kim King (R) | 73.4 | 16,382 |
 | Katrina Sexton (D)  | 26.6 | 5,922 | |
| Total votes: 22,304 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Katrina Sexton advanced from the Democratic primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 55.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Kim King advanced from the Republican primary for Kentucky House of Representatives District 55.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- James Toller (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Sexton in this election.
Pledges
Sexton signed the following pledges.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Katrina Sexton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sexton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a married 43-year-old mother of two sons. I am a native of Washington County and resident of Mercer County where I have lived most of my life. Over the years, I have worked as a farmhand, social services worker, hospital associate, retail work, manufacturing/factory line, and higher education administration. As a member of the community, I have served as a volunteer on various boards as well as an elected official on the local city council in Burgin, KY. I have experience working with budgets, policies, and local/state laws within the municipal system and a local school district. I hope to bring the people's voice back to the legislature through the district's house seat to serve the people of Washington, Mercer, and (southern) Jessamine Counties.
- Public tax dollars belong to the public and should serve the public.
- Healthcare is a right, not a privilege to be dictated by corporations.
- Poverty is not a life choice and people should not be forced to fight it alone.
Education, healthcare, and poverty
I look up to my grandmothers, my mother, and my mother-in-law. Each of these ladies taught me how to be strong, resilient, and compassionate. They all had their personal struggles in life, but each of them came through the other side, inspiring me to be a mother, a strong woman, and someone who genuinely cares for others regardless of anything else that may have defined who they were or what others thought about them.
Elected officials should be honest and transparent, seeking to serve the full constituency rather than self-interest. Holding an elected office is not a career, but rather a service to the people for who one is elected to represent. Term limits should be applied to the legislature and retirement should not be an option for an elected office.
My life experiences have been varied and some have been extremely hard. I have pushed myself throughout my life, overcoming and striving to do more and to be more, to gain a higher education and to take on jobs or opportunities that helped me to understand the people around me in a more realistic way. I have seen and experienced so many different paths in life. I believe I can truly relate to my fellow Kentuckians. I have a working knowledge of how policies, legislation, budgets, and finance work on a local, state, and federal scale. For anything that I do not understand, I am willing to learn and ask questions while listening to the people who I serve.
Listen to the public, serve the public interest, and work together to achieve the best possible outcomes for the most people possible regardless of political affiliation.
The hope is that I would leave a legacy of cooperation that provided for greater bipartisanship while providing for and improving the lives of so many, many more Kentuckians who have gone for too long feeling left behind or forgotten by the elected leaders.
The fall of the Berlin Wall is the first historical event that I can remember. I believe I was about 10 years old when I saw it on the news.
My first job was working at Walmart. As far as I can remember, I worked for Walmart for about one year.
I'm not sure I have a favorite book. Once I read a book, I don't usually read it again, but there are some that I truly enjoyed for different reasons. Pride and Prejudice because who doesn't like Jane Austen. Wuthering Heights because it was a challenge at the time to understand due to how it was written and the language. I love series novels. The trilogy that really grabbed my affection for reading was The Twilight series. The books that I think left a longer lasting impact go back to when I was in high school and since my years as a teacher which are: Hiroshima [excellent book full of detail], The Great Gatsby [capturing the culture of life], and of course The Federalist Papers [documenting the story of our nation's government coming to fruition].
Perhaps Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Katniss Everdeen, but probably more likely Jo March.
It's silly, but "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus and I don't really listen to a great deal of music outside of K-Love but that song seems to just into my head for some reason.
Trying to help others while still maintaining balance in my own life has been a constant struggle. All too often I take on more and more in an attempt to help someone else. I have put myself into personal debt trying to improve the lives of people around me and even for complete strangers. I work to improve the plight of others or to bring opportunities to others or to provide for the needs of others, frequently to my own detriment, or to a fault at times.
The state government should be able to work in a bipartisan manner to accomplish the best possible outcome for Kentucky rather than for only certain groups.
Political division as well as economic and environmental barriers.
It does help to have some experience but I do not believe it should be a requirement. It is important that all Kentuckians are represented regardless of experience.
In order for people to work together, we have to understand and know each other at a deeper level rather than just on the surface. A person's character and personal experiences provides insight into their beliefs, ideas, and perspectives on different issues.
Martha Layne Collins
At this time, I have no future aspirations to run for another political office. If the opportunity were to be presented, I would weigh the possibilities and make a decision at that time. I do not know what my future holds.
As someone who has spent nearly my entire adult life as a public servant in one capacity or another, I have heard many personal stories. The continuance theme over the last 40 plus years has been that people feel beaten down, shamed, humiliated, or forgotten by the elected. In addition, I have had some moments of my own where I simply could not understand or fathom how it is that someone can work so hard and still be so crushed in life that the feeling of hopelessness seeps into every aspect of daily life. People should not feel like they are disposable. People matter.
Although the question is vague or not specific enough, the legislature should operate under the authority originally granted to it through the state constitution. If the state constitution does not provide for such oversight, then leave the choice to the people to change it. Too often one political party or the other has too much control and use of power to hinder rather to than to help was not the intent of the founders. Working together toward a common goal and the common good of mankind should be the focus.
Although similar bills have been introduced before, I would like to bring forth a bill to set term limits on the state legislature or a state constitutional amendment for the people to vote on. Statistics show that Kentuckians [Americans at-large] want term limits, but the legislative bodies [state and federal] continue to vote in their own interests rather than the people's interests. In addition, legislation to protection our education system and other state merit-based employment is needed in order to make the commonwealth more competitive with surrounding states rather than driving individuals out of such careers.
Education, oversight, and finance
The government runs for and by the will of the people. Government finances should be fully open to the public to see and in a manner that the general public can understand. Elected leaders who refuse to serve the public or who choose to earmark public tax dollars for private interests should not be serving in office.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
Current members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:David Osborne
Representatives
District 1
Steven Rudy (R)
District 2
District 3
Randy Bridges (R)
District 4
D. Wade Williams (R)
District 5
Mary Imes (R)
District 6
Chris Freeland (R)
District 7
Suzanne Miles (R)
District 8
Walker Thomas (R)
District 9
Myron Dossett (R)
District 10
Josh Calloway (R)
District 11
J.T. Payne (R)
District 12
Jim Gooch (R)
District 13
D.J. Johnson (R)
District 14
Scott Lewis (R)
District 15
Rebecca Raymer (R)
District 16
Jason Petrie (R)
District 17
Robert Duvall (R)
District 18
Samara Heavrin (R)
District 19
Michael Meredith (R)
District 20
Kevin Jackson (R)
District 21
Amy Neighbors (R)
District 22
Shawn McPherson (R)
District 23
Steve Riley (R)
District 24
Ryan Bivens (R)
District 25
Steve Bratcher (R)
District 26
Peyton Griffee (R)
District 27
Nancy Tate (R)
District 28
Jared Bauman (R)
District 29
Chris Lewis (R)
District 30
Daniel Grossberg (D)
District 31
District 32
Tina Bojanowski (D)
District 33
Jason Nemes (R)
District 34
Sarah Stalker (D)
District 35
Lisa Willner (D)
District 36
John Hodgson (R)
District 37
Emily Callaway (R)
District 38
Rachel Roarx (D)
District 39
Matt Lockett (R)
District 40
Nima Kulkarni (D)
District 41
Mary Marzian (D)
District 42
Joshua Watkins (D)
District 43
Pamela Stevenson (D)
District 44
District 45
Adam Moore (D)
District 46
Alan Gentry (D)
District 47
Felicia Rabourn (R)
District 48
Ken Fleming (R)
District 49
Thomas Huff (R)
District 50
Candy Massaroni (R)
District 51
Michael Pollock (R)
District 52
Ken Upchurch (R)
District 53
James Tipton (R)
District 54
Daniel Elliott (R)
District 55
Kim King (R)
District 56
Daniel Fister (R)
District 57
Erika Hancock (D)
District 58
Jennifer Decker (R)
District 59
David Osborne (R)
District 60
Marianne Proctor (R)
District 61
Savannah Maddox (R)
District 62
Tony Hampton (R)
District 63
Kimberly Banta (R)
District 64
Kimberly Moser (R)
District 65
Stephanie Dietz (R)
District 66
T.J. Roberts (R)
District 67
Matthew Lehman (D)
District 68
Mike Clines (R)
District 69
Steven Doan (R)
District 70
William Lawrence (R)
District 71
Josh Bray (R)
District 72
Matthew Koch (R)
District 73
Ryan Dotson (R)
District 74
David Hale (R)
District 75
Lindsey Burke (D)
District 76
Anne Donworth (D)
District 77
George Brown (D)
District 78
Mark Hart (R)
District 79
Chad Aull (D)
District 80
David Meade (R)
District 81
District 82
Nick Wilson (R)
District 83
Joshua Branscum (R)
District 84
Chris Fugate (R)
District 85
Shane Baker (R)
District 86
Tom Smith (R)
District 87
Adam Bowling (R)
District 88
Vanessa Grossl (R)
District 89
Timmy Truett (R)
District 90
Derek Lewis (R)
District 91
Billy Wesley (R)
District 92
John Blanton (R)
District 93
Adrielle Camuel (D)
District 94
Mitchum Whitaker (R)
District 95
Ashley Laferty (D)
District 96
Patrick Flannery (R)
District 97
Bobby McCool (R)
District 98
Aaron Thompson (R)
District 99
Richard White (R)
District 100
Scott Sharp (R)
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Democratic Party (20)
