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Ryan Quarles
4th President of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2, 2024
Preceded by
Paul Czarapata
Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky
In office January 4, 2016 – January 1, 2024
Governor
Matt Bevin Andy Beshear
Preceded by
James Comer
Succeeded by
Jonathan Shell
Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 62nd district
In office January 1, 2011 – January 3, 2016
Preceded by
Charlie Hoffman
Succeeded by
Chuck Tackett
Personal details
Born
Ryan Francis Quarles
(1983-10-20) October 20, 1983 (age 40) Georgetown, Kentucky, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Education
University of Kentucky (BA, MS, MA, JD) Harvard University (MEd) Vanderbilt University (EdD)
Ryan Francis Quarles (born October 20, 1983) is an academic administrator and American politician who was the Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky from 2016 to 2024 and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 2011 to 2016. He has served as president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System since 2024.
Fletcher appointed Quarles to two consecutive terms as a Student Council Member on the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Quarles ran, in 2010, for...
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Paul O'Neill asked Quarles to return to the Treasury, where he served until the mid-term elections in 2006. At the Treasury, Quarles was a senior official...
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2016 special election following the resignation of Republican incumbent RyanQuarles to become Kentucky agriculture commissioner. He was defeated in November...
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leadership post. In November 2010, he was defeated for re-election by RyanQuarles (R-Scott), 49% to 51%. He ran for the Kentucky Senate in 2016, but lost...
incumbents switched parties after the 2014 election. Democrats flipped a seat in a March 2016 special election following the resignation of RyanQuarles....
Cameron, state Auditor Mike Harmon, and state Agriculture Commissioner RyanQuarles. As of November 2022, she was reported to have raised $210,796 for her...