Lois Combs Weinberg
| Lois Combs Weinberg | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Lois Ann Combs December 18, 1943 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Randolph College (BS) Harvard University (MEd) |
Lois Ann Combs Weinberg (born December 18, 1943), a native of the Eastern region of Kentucky, is a politician and an advocate for improvements in public education in Kentucky. Weinberg has served on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, and the Kentucky Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.
In 2002, Weinberg won the Kentucky Democratic Party primary for United States Senate against Tom Barlow. She lost to incumbent Mitch McConnell in the November general election, 64.7%–35.3%.
Lois Combs Weinberg, the daughter of Bertam "Bert "T. Combs and Mabel Hall Combs. She was born on December 18, 1943 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Weinberg attended Randoph Macon Women's College and earned a BS in 1965, and a M Ed Harvard in 1996. Weinberg married Bill Weinberg and they have three children.
Her father, an attorney, was first elected to the political office to the position of city attorney in Prestonsburg in 1950. Later that year, Governor Lawrence Wetherby appointed her father to fill a vacancy in the office of Commonwealth's Attorney for Kentucky's 31st Judicial District. In April 1951, Governor Wetherby appointed Combs to fill a vacancy on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Later that year, he won a full eight-year term on the court. In 1959, he was elected the 50th Governor of Kentucky. He was appointed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Lyndon B. Johnson, serving from 1967 to 1970.
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