Mayor Prather served as President of the NewCities Institute and was a four term magistrate on the Scott County Fiscal Court. He holds a life-long appreciation and respect for responsible public policy and community development.
Prior to joining the NewCities Institute, Mayor Prather was President of Central Bank, Georgetown and still serves as a Board member for the bank. Previously, he was Vice-President of the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities, working with Kentucky’s 19 independent colleges. In this role he led the Kentucky Independent College Foundation, performed an advocacy role to the state’s business community on behalf of independent higher education, assisted with cooperative programming among the colleges and raised over $4,000,000 for need-based scholarships for students attending the member colleges. He initiated the KICF Named Scholars Program, through which corporations continue to support scholarships benefiting many students.
Prather has had a long history of public service with 10 years as a member of the Georgetown City Council and eight years as mayor of Georgetown. His years as mayor coincided with the critical first eight years of Kentucky’s Toyota experience, helping develop lasting relationships between the corporation and Georgetown, as well as the broader Kentucky community. While serving as mayor, Prather guided Georgetown through a period of great change and growth, negotiated the voluntary annexation of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing - Kentucky facility into the city limits of Georgetown, established the Sister City relationship with Tahara Cho, Japan, and presided over numerous public facilities projects.
Prather has spoken extensively throughout Kentucky, as well as nationally and internationally, on community and economic development and Georgetown’s Toyota experience
Prather has served with the Scott County United Way, a board member of Georgetown Community Hospital, member of the Georgetown-Scott County Community and Education Foundation, and current member of Scott County United. He also has served as President of the Georgetown-Scott County Chamber of Commerce,
Prather has been recognized as Citizen of the Year by the Georgetown-Scott County Chamber of Commerce and inducted into the Scott County Education Hall of Fame,
Prather is a 1973 graduate of Centre College, the General Motors School of Management and KBA Banking School. He completed Leadership Kentucky in 1990. He and his wife, Maureen, reside in Georgetown.
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