Trey Grayson

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Trey Grayson

Trey Grayson is a partner of the Florence, Kentucky office of the law firm FBT Gibbons. He served as a two-term Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The youngest secretary of state in the country at the time of his election, he served as President of the National Association of Secretaries of State and the Chair of the Republican Association of Secretaries of State.

Grayson continues to be recognized as a national leader in election administration, including serving on the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He currently serves on the boards of The Center for Election Innovation and Research and works with several additional organizations, including the Institute for Responsive Government, Faces of Democracy, League of Conservative Election Professionals, and the National Task Force on Election Crises. He also serves on the advisory boards for the Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections at the University of California San Diego, the Election Official Legal Defense Network, Issue One, the National Institute for Civil Discourse, the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law, States United Democracy Center, and Unite America.

After leaving the Secretary of State’s office, Grayson served as the Director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics from 2011-2014, before returning home to become President & CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

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