STAFF REPORT
Glasgow News 1
The Barren County Courthouse will be closed on Dec. 12 in recognition of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s inauguration to his second term in office.
According to an email sent by Barren County Circuit Clerk Krissie Coe Fields, Chief Justice Laurance VanMeter — who was elected as chief justice in Jan. 2023 — recently announced that the judicial branch would join with Beshear, who has already announced the closure of nonessential executive branch services on Dec. 12.
“Please note that the Administrative Office of the Courts and courts statewide will be closed on inauguration day,” Coe Fields writes. “There could possibly be court in some counties depending on Judge’s discretion.”
Beshear (D) won his election against former Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) — who won Barren County by 16 points — with 53 percent to Cameron’s 47 percent statewide. The 62nd gubernatorial inauguration, while being only the third second-term inauguration since the passage of a state constitutional amendment in the 1990s, will feature an inaugural breakfast, a worship service, a parade followed by the swearing in ceremony, the “grand march” and finally a four hour inaugural ball.
The chair of this ceremony, of which has the theme of “Forward Together,” is Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray with the honorary co-chair Thomas Elliott, who was killed in the Old National Bank shooting in Louisville on April 10.
Several portions of the ceremony will be broadcast on KET. For the full schedule of the day’s events click here.
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