Congratulations to:

Amanda Gumbert of Lexington, appointed to the Agriculture Water Quality Authority.

Carol Christian of Lexington, appointed to the Kentucky Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education.

Author Crystal Wilkinson, who has won Transylvania University’s Judy Gaines Young Book Award for “The Birds of Opulence.”

Dr. Jonathan Ballard, assistant professor at UK, appointed state public health epidemiologist and director of the Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning in the Department for Public Health.