LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Leadership Louisville Center has selected the Leadership Louisville Class of 2024 — the 45th class of the Center’s signature program for established community leaders. Since 1979, Leadership Louisville has ensured that the community’s most influential and esteemed leaders are knowledgeable about issues, well-networked, and passionate about the region’s success. These talented leaders will spend ten months immersed in an active learning experience, diving into our community’s history, assets, and challenges, emerging ready to create positive change alongside a network of fellow influencers and decision-makers.
Armed with new knowledge, connections, and perspectives, Leadership Louisville graduates are prepared to take their places as effective community leaders. The 2024 Class includes leaders from the highest levels of organizations of all kinds, from all sectors. It also includes the second recipient of the Charles F. Herd Scholarship, created in memory of Charles F. Herd, a dedicated community leader and one of the founders of the Leadership Louisville Center.
The Leadership Louisville Class of 2024 will begin in July 2023 and run through May 2024. The sixty-two members of the Leadership Louisville Class of 2024 includes Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable) Adam Woytowich, Special Forces Branch Chief of the U.S. Army Human Resources Command, the second recipient of the Charles F. Herd Scholarship, designated for an outstanding public servant who demonstrates service to God, service to country through honorable military service, and a desire to enhance the regional community.
“The Herd family is excited to support LTC(P) Woytowich in this year’s Leadership Louisville class. He is just the kind of leader our father would be excited to have in Louisville,” said Colonel (Retired) Walter Herd.
The sixty-two members of the Leadership Louisville Class of 2024 are:
- Donnie Adkins, The Palm Room
- Jason Adler, German American Bank
- Cristina Anez, Churchill Downs Incorporated | CDI
- Casie Banquer, GE Appliances, a Haier company
- Cyndi Benedict, Norton Healthcare
- Matt Berrian, CPA, FORVIS
- Laurie L. Bottiger, The de Paul School
- Kofi A. Cash, MS, FACHE, UofL Health
- Kim A. Clay, African American Amateur Golfers Association
- Dan Clift, Wetterer & Co.
- Mary Charles Collett, Kentucky Country Day School
- Margaret Cotter, JPMorgan Chase
- Tony Curtis, Metropolitan Housing Coalition
- Kappie Farrington, Antecedent Development
- Mikal Forbush, Center for Neighborhoods
- Heather Fuqua, Louisville Regional Airport Authority
- Chad M. Gahm, MCM CPAs & Advisors
- Matt Golden, Jewish Community of Louisville
- Lewis Hargett, MD, Greater Louisville Medical Society | GLMS
- Melissa Hicks, Dean Dorton
- Lindsey Higginbotham, Baptist Health
- Amanda Higgins, CPA, Hardscuffle, Inc. | American Life & Accident
- Anyah Hoang, PhD, DPA, Volunteers of America Mid-States | VOA
- Donte’ L. Jackson, Simmons College of Kentucky
- Tiffani Jett, Fifth Third Bank
- Jaime Jorrisch, Jewish Heritage Fund
- Rhona Bowles Kamar, Feed Louisville
- Ben Keeton, RunSwitch PR
- Justin C. Keeton, Messer Construction Co.
- Shannon Kisselbaugh, CFRE, Park Community Credit Union Foundation
- Kelli LeGaspi, Humana Inc.
- Cecily Lewis, Brown-Forman Corporation
- Jessica Loseke, Midwest Barrel Co
- Ronald Marshall, Jr., EdD, Jefferson County Public Schools | JCPS
- Lori Mattingly, Angel’s Envy Distillery | Louisville Distilling Co.
- Monique McFarland, Republic Bank & Trust Company
- John William McKnight, Humana Inc.
- Chris Nall, Atria Senior Living
- Kristie Phillips, Farm Credit Mid-America
- Merry-Kay Poe, Unbridled Films
- Scott Reed, Norton Healthcare
- Jim Ritter, PNC Bank
- Chris Seals, PhD, MEd., University of Louisville School of Medicine
- Scott Self, Bellarmine University
- Claire Simms, LG&E and KU Energy
- Sister Paris Slapikas, SCN, Catholic Charities of Louisville, Inc.
- Austin Smith, The Healing Place
- Sonya Smith, Horizon Commercial Realty
- Roosevelt J. Stennis, Jr., Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP
- William Sutter, DDW, The Color House – a Givaudan Company
- Julie J. Torzewski, Down Syndrome of Louisville
- Leyla Touma Dailey, Doe-Anderson
- Dawn Urrutia, Georgia’s Sweet Potato Pie Company
- Joshua Watkins, Louisville Metro Government
- K. Michelle Weikel, Passport Health Plan by Molina Healthcare
- Jessica Wells, CFRE, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana
- Jessie Whitish, Neighborhood House
- Andrew J. Wise, Goodwill Industries of Kentucky
- Rachel D. Worley, AIA, three-dot-design
- LTC(P) Adam Woytowich, U.S. Army Human Resources Command
- Katie Biggs Wright, Frost Brown Todd LLC
- Sarah Wunderlin, Sacred Heart Schools
