About Us

•      She was born and raised in Ohio. Her experience over fifteen years as a church leader, trainer, executive, policy maker, and revitalizer of diverse communities, has prepared her well for a life in public service. Leanette has been married 32 years and has a daughter in college.

•      Leanette Lopez is not new to leadership roles. As an ecclesiastical organizer, she created a governing organization for the Hispanic Christian community. As their policy maker, she created and developed the groups’ governing policies and legislation. She also translated the organization's documents, making it bilingual and thereby more inclusive, which also facilitate the efficiency of the organization’s meetings for it’s members who traveled from multiple states.

•      Leanette Lopez is not new to working effectively with others. As a member of several advisory committees for another organization in Ohio on the district level, she utilized her communication skills to collaborate with committee members in the mentoring of young pastors. Many of the “protégés” who she mentored have gone on to develop multiple successful congregations on their own.

•      Leanette Lopez is not new to community service. As a community organizer in Ohio, she organized her district's neighborhoods’ churches to have inter-faith ministering gatherings on a regular basis for the purpose of providing charitable service and improving the sense of community in the neighborhoods. This made a significant impact on the city’s quality of life index.

Growth

• In order to remain competitive in today's marketplace, we need to create additional incentives to attract top employers and global companies to this area of Kentucky. 

Jobs

• By making education and job training more accessible, we will create a more prepared workforce for new employment opportunities of the future.

Values

• As your elected official, I will represent the values of this community: the value of doing a good job, the value of fair treatment for all, the value of working together and the value of faith and family.

•      Getting people safely back to work amid Covid-19 is Leanette's main concern along with making sure BG remains globally competitive as we have been. She believes it's imperative to maintain a close connection to the Chamber of Commerce as she plans to help some of them get back to work.