Harold Workman Receives Kentucky Electric Cooperatives' Distinguished Service Award
11/14/2005


Kentucky State Fair Board President and CEO Harold Workman accepted the 2005 Distinguished Rural Kentuckian Award from the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives.

The award recognizes Workman’s achievement of positioning the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center and the Kentucky International
Convention Center as top competitors in the convention and trade show industry.

Since 1986, Workman has directed all agency-produced events for the Kentucky State Fair Board as Director of Expositions. After serving four years as Vice President of Expositions and Operations, Workman was named to his current position as President and CEO in 1993.

Workman began his career in the early 1970s as supervisor of shows and fairs with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. In 1974, he was named General Manager of the North American International Livestock Exposition, which he developed into the world’s largest purebred livestock show.

The electric co-ops of Kentucky have presented the Distinguished Rural Kentuckian Award annually since 1982, to recognize people who have improved the quality of life in the state. The first recipient was author Jesse Stuart of Greenup. Other recipients include Cawood Ledford, Governor A.B. “Happy” Chandler, KET’s O. Leonard Press, Dr. Louise Caudill, Wendell Berry and Senator Wendell Ford.

Workman accepted the award at a banquet during the 59th annual meeting of the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives.

The Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives, based in Louisville, represents 26 local, user-owned, electric cooperatives, which provide electricity to about one-third of the homes and businesses in the state, covering parts of 117 of the 120 counties in Kentucky.

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