Major Ron Leach, formerly of Lynchburg, seeks congressional seat in Kentucky

The Highland County Press

A former Lynchburg resident is seeking congressional office in western Kentucky.

Retired U.S. Army Major Ron Leach, a Meade County, Ky. Democrat, is campaigning for the commonwealth's Second District congressional seat.

The seat is currently held by Bowling Green Republican Brett Guthrie.

According to a report by Kevin Willis for Western Kentucky University Public Radio, Leach said he believes the majority of Kentuckians are "being left behind" by a Congress more interested in partisanship than solving problems.

"The idea that we need leaders and not looters, that we need a Kentucky and an America that works, and works for all of us. That we need a functioning government that represents all Kentuckians, that's not left or right, and that's not partisan," said Leach, who also served eight years in the National Guard.

According to his campaign website, www.ronleach4ky.com, Leach is a recently retired U.S. Army major with 21 years on active duty and eight years in the National Guard. He served as an infantry soldier, paratrooper, special forces medical sergeant and an A-Team member, as well as a medical officer.

Major Leach served four combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as missions related to Foreign Internal Defense, Interoperability Training, and Drug Interdiction. He then served in Washington, D.C. as a staff officer at the headquarters of the Office of the Surgeon General as the Army’s Medical Information Management subject matter expert.

Major Leach holds bachelor's degree from Ohio State University and the University of Nebraska.

He and his wife, Kelly, have six children and two grandchildren. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leach of Lynchburg and a 1982 graduate of Lynchburg-Clay High School.