McClain grad Stephanie Pearce Burke wins primary race for Kentucky judgeship
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Louisville attorney Stephanie Pearce Burke, a Greenfield native, and Mason Trenaman, an appointed district judge, have won the Jefferson District Court primary race in Kentucky Tuesday night to move on to the November general election, according to The Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Burke appears to have the momentum in the race to try and fill Judge Jacquelyn Eckert's seat, as she cruised past Trenaman and Jan Brightwell, an assistant commonwealth's attorney, in Tuesday night’s primary," said the Louisville Courier-Journal, adding that Burke easily won a spot in the November general election with approximately 50% of the vote.
“This is exactly what we wanted,” Burke told the Journal, adding that she has been campaigning hard since last summer. “We’re not going to get lazy, though. We are going to work twice as hard from this point forward.”
Burke, the daughter of Steve and Charlene Pearce, grew up in Greenfield. A 1987 graduate of the Edward Lee McClain High School, she was involved in a number of extracurricular activities as a teenager. After graduating from high school, Burke entered college knowing that she wanted to earn her law degree, according to Pearce. She earned her B.A. in criminal justice/political science and her J.D. from Ohio Northern University and was admitted to the bar in Kentucky and Ohio in 1995.
Information on Burke's campaign can be found at www.voteburkeforjudge.com.
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