Timothy N. Philpot

Timothy Neil Philpot (born March 18, 1951) is an American lawyer, author and judge. He has served as a family court circuit judge in Fayette County, Kentucky, since 2004 and his present term expires in January 2023. He previously served as a "staunchly conservative"Republican Senator in the Kentucky Senate from 1993 to 1998 and as the President of Christian Business Men's Connection from 1996 to 2003. As a judge, Philpot has been criticised for making controversial statements about LGBT people but also defended as not allowing his social views to influence his judicial decisions. Philpot is also an author, his most-recent book being a well-received semi-autobiographical novel drawing on cases he has heard and his experiences as a judge, explored from his socially conservative Methodist perspective.

Philpot is a lifelong resident of Lexington, Kentucky. His father was Ford Philpot and his mother, Virginia. His father was a minister in the United Methodist Church and the producer of The Story, the first religious TV program broadcast in color. In 1971, Philpot married Susan Davis, a Nurse and the daughter of Methodist missionaries who was raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Philpot received his Bachelor of Science degree in history in 1974 and his Juris Doctor in 1977, both from the University of Kentucky. As a trial lawyer, Philpot specialised in employment law, family law and civil rights cases; in 1989, he won Fayette County's first million dollar verdict.

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