Trey Grayson

Trey Grayson

Advisory Board Member

Trey Grayson is a member of the Florence, Kentucky office of the law firm Frost Brown Todd and managing director of the firm’s government relations affiliate, CivicPoint.

Trey served as a two-term Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The youngest secretary of state in the country at the time of his election, he served as President of the National Association of Secretaries of State and the Chair of the Republican Association of Secretaries of State.

Trey continues to be recognized as a national leader in election modernization, including serving on the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration following the 2012 election. He currently serves as a board member of Unite America and the Center for Election Innovation and Research and works with several additional groups and organizations to secure and modernize our elections, including Democracy Works, the Secure Elections Project, the National Task Force on Election Crises, and National Council on Election Integrity. He also serves as a member of the advisory committees for States United Democracy Center, Issue One, the Election Official Legal Defense Network, and the National Institute for Civil Discourse.

After leaving the Secretary of State's office, Trey returned to his alma mater to serve as the Director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics from 2011-2014, before returning home to become President & CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

He resides in Boone County, Kentucky, with his wife, Nancy, and daughters, Alex and Kate. He received an A.B. with honors from Harvard College in 1994 and a JD/MBA from the University of Kentucky in 1998.

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