NO MEMBER EAST OF LEXINGTON

FRANKFORT – Gov. Matt Bevin has revamped the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Nominating Commis­sion and named all new members to it. It is the latest of several reorganiza­tions where Bevin has scrapped, or sig­nificantly changed, the makeup of an important state board that he inherited from his predecessor Steve Beshear. Other boards he recently changed in­clude the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority.

The Workers’ Compensation Nomi­nating Commission is important be­cause it nominates — for appointment by the governor and confirmation by the state Senate – those who serve as ad­ministrative law judges in workers’ compensation cases.

Bevin’s executive order, filed Mon­day, appointed the following seven per­sons to the new commission, effective immediately: Victoria E. Boggs, of Louisville, an attorney with Napier Gault Schupback & Stevens; Joshua W. Davis, of Louisville, an attorney with O’Bryan, Brown & Toner; Mark Flores, of Lexington, an attorney with Frost Brown Todd; Runan S. Pendergrast, of Lexington, associate dean of financial aid at Bluegrass Community and Tech­nical College; Megan E. Mersch, of Park Hills, an attorney with O’Hara, Ruberg, Taylor, Sloan & Sergeant; Lou­is D. Kelly, of Florence, an attorney with Adams, Stepner, Woltermann & Dusing; and Jordan Tong, of Owens­boro, president and owner of Frantz Building Services.

By Tom Loftus
The Courier-Journal