By Associated Press - Wednesday, January 9, 2019

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed a new Judge executive in northeastern Kentucky.

Roscoe Higginbotham will be the new top county official in Nicholas County. The county’s previous Judge executive, Mike Pryor, died in December following a short illness.

Higginbotham is a Marine and veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a retired federal auditor for the United States Air Force, where he performed financial and logistics management.

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Higginbotham will serve the rest of Pryor’s term, and the next Judge executive will be the winner of the general election later this year.

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