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Executive Assistant to the Kentucky Governor
In December of 2007, at age 26, Colmon Elridge was appointed Executive Assistant and Senior Advisor to Kentucky’s 61st Governor Steve Beshear. As Executive Assistant to the Governor, Colmon, 31, has served a lead role in managing the day-to-day operations of the Office of the Governor and an integral role in the creation and implementation of several of the Governor’s initiatives transforming Kentucky’s education and business climate after the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
Colmon is from Cynthiana Kentucky and is a graduate of Transylvania University (BA) and Sullivan University (MBA).
Never forgetting his own life story of homelessness, poverty,and the transformative power of the intersection of education and opportunity, Colmon operates with a continued sense of gratitude which has not only led him to success in public service but to be an active member in his community. Colmon currently serves on the boards of Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, the Alzheimer’s Association of Kentuckiana, the Bluegrass Center for Teacher Quality, Transylvania University, and as Board President of the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation of Kentucky, as well as lending his time and energies to numerous other activities aimed at strengthening the broader Commonwealth of Kentucky. In 2014, Colmon was named as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, an award given to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford, as well as Elvis Presley. In June 2014 he was named one of four rising stars in Kentucky politics by MSNBC.
Colmon, his wife Victoria, and their sons Colmon and Carter live in Georgetown, KY.