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Richards honored for more than 40 years of public service Richards is a native of Garlin, Adair County, KY and was educated in Adair County through High School. He is the son of the late Demaree and Mary Richards. Click on headline for complete story By Aaron Mudd, Bowling Green Daily News Original URL: bgdailynews.com/news/richards-honored-for-more-than-years-of-public-service/article_bd3c17e9-0047-5df9-ba64-f3892321e878.html When former Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton tries to sum up the legislative impact of Rep. Jody Richards' 43 years in office, he finds it hard to put into words. "It's just hard to summarize what a tremendous impact he's had," Patton told the Daily News. Patton was one of several guests speaking Saturday night at a retirement dinner for Richards at the National Corvette Museum. Others included Kentucky Chief Justice John Minton Jr., House Democratic leader Rocky Adkins, Attorney General Andy Beshear and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. After he announced his retirement in January, Richards told the Daily News in April that he never imagined being a public servant for four decades. After assuming office in 1976, he's gone on to become one of the most prolific state lawmakers in the country. An analysis from FiscalNote, a D.C.-based tech startup, named him as the third most productive state representative, with at least 1,100 sponsored and a 57 percent bill passage success rate. Richards was named an education committee chair, then caucus chair and finally House speaker for 14 years. Education policy remained a constant theme throughout Richards' tenure, which later prompted Warren County Public Schools to name an elementary school after him in 2012, and Western Kentucky University to do the same with its Mass Media and Technology Hall. Many described Richards as a champion for public education. "He's always answered my calls and taken my visits," said Jim Flynn, Superintendent of Simpson County Schools. John Ridley, a former member of WKU's Board of Regents, described Richards as "a man who lived his life unselfishly with no second agendas, with honor and bravery when it was time to stand up for the right thing." In 1990, he helped pass the Kentucky Education Reform Act, which equalized school funding, created school-based decision-making councils and reformed testing. Locally, Richards helped develop and recruit businesses for the Kentucky Transpark in Warren County, where a road bears his name. WKU President Timothy Caboni has previously described Richards as a personal inspiration and "a driving force behind major reform efforts for K-12 and higher education." He credited Richards as a leader in the creation of WKU's Gatton Academy and on several policy initiatives that helped bring engineering and advanced practice doctorate programs to WKU. Others, Adkins among them, described Richards as a man who could work across the aisle and with lawmakers from other parts of Kentucky. He recalled how Richards set up a meeting with former Gov. Martha Layne Collins to help Adkins get a water line for a community in his district. "He understood how to make government work for the people across this commonwealth," Adkins said. This story was posted on 2018-08-14 07:02:20
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