Melinda Hill

Background

Hill is the executive director of CASA of South Central Kentucky and has served on the Bowling Green City Commission in 2011–2016 and from 2021 to the present; during her earlier tenure she was twice mayor pro tem. She is a Warren County native, graduate of Warren East High School, and holds an accounting degree from Union University and an MBA from Western Kentucky University.

Sources: City of Bowling Green, CASA of South Central Kentucky

What the candidate has said

Statements are attributed to the linked sources.

• Economic development

  Hill said she wants Bowling Green to remain open to economic development and good-paying jobs, while acknowledging that data centers may or may not be the answer. She also said city agendas should be easier to understand.

  WBKO

• Data centers

  Hill voted against a proposed six-month pause on data-center activity; she supported moving forward with the data-center zoning ordinance, which commissioners approved unanimously on first reading.

  WNKY