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Attorney Profiles
 Elizabeth
S. Hughes
Lexington, Kentucky
Member
Elizabeth S. Hughes joined Gess Mattingly & Atchison in 1991. Her
practice is devoted primarily to employment law and litigation. In addition to
employment law, her litigation practice encompasses criminal law (in both state
and federal courts, including juvenile, misdemeanor and felony cases), domestic
relations, general business litigation and appeals. She represents both
plaintiffs and defendants in these areas.
Elizabeth served as President of the Fayette County Bar Association in 2004-2005
and served as an officer and director of that organization from 1998 through
2006. She is currently the Vice President of the Fayette County Bar Foundation,
a not-for-profit entity which supports law-related charities and projects in the
community through the award of grants.
By appointment of the Kentucky Supreme Court, Elizabeth has served since 2002 as
a member of the seven person Kentucky Board of Bar Examiners, charged with the
responsibility of writing and grading the Kentucky Bar Exam, and has been its
Secretary since 2005. She is also a Kentucky Bar Foundation Life Fellow, a
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the University of Kentucky
College of Law Alumni Board of Directors, the Fayette County Pro Bono Program
Board of Directors and Legal Aid of the Bluegrass Board of Directors; and
currently serves as a member of the Trial Commission of the Kentucky Bar
Association.
In addition to her service to the Fayette County Bar Association, the Kentucky
Bar Association and the Kentucky Supreme Court, as well as the University of
Kentucky College of Law, Elizabeth has been an active member of numerous
committees associated with improving the legal profession, such as the
committees which plan the Fayette County Bench and Bar CLE Program; organize and
plan the Fayette County Law Day Program; created the Parents’ Education Clinic
in Fayette County; and drafted Civil Remedies for Women Victimized by Violence:
A Practice Manual for Attorneys on behalf of the Governor’s Council on Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault.
Elizabeth is a frequent speaker to both legal and lay audiences, primarily on
the topic of employment law and sexual harassment, including presentations for
the New Lawyers Program, the Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Fayette
County Bench and Bar CLE Program, the Fayette County Bar Association and the
Kentucky Victims’ Assistance Conference.
- Civil Litigation
- Criminal Litigation
- Employment and Labor Law
- Domestic Relations
- Kentucky, 1991
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky, 1991
- U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky, 2003
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1993
- University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky, 1991
J.D.
Honors: With Distinction
Law Journal: Kentucky Law Journal, Associate Editor
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1988
B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
- Criminal Prosecution and Civil Remedies for Victims of Sexual
Offenses: Amendment of the Rape Shield Law, Kentucky Bar Association
Bench & Bar, Vol. 69, No. 2, p. 11 (March), 2005
- Civil Remedies for Women Victimized by Violence: A Practice Manual
For Attorneys, UK/CLE Publication, 2003
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- R.C. v. Commonwealth, 101 S.W.3d 897 (Ky.App. 2002)
- Renfro Valley Folks, Inc. v. City of Mt. Vernon, 872 S.W.2d 472 (Ky.App. 1993)
- "The Legal Community Working Together Nationally", Panel Member,
Kentucky Bar Association Convention, 2005
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- Kentucky Legal Education Opportunities Summer Institute, Kentucky Legal
Education, 2004
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- "Kentucky Labor and Employment Law", National Business Institute, 2004
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- "Employment Discrimination Update in Kentucky", National Business
Institute, 2004
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- "Trying a Sexual Harassment Case", Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys
Spring Break Seminar, 2004
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- "Kentucky Revises the Rape Shield Law: Important Changes to KRE 412 for
Both Criminal and Civil Practitioners", Fayette County Bar Association, 2003
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- "Civil Actions in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases", Kentucky
Victims Assistance Conference, 2002
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- "Using the Electronic Courtroom", Fayette County Bar Association Bench &
Bar CLE, 2002
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- New Lawyers Program, Kentucky Bar Association, 1998 - 1999
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- Fayette County Bar Association, 1998 - Present
- Immediate Past President
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- Fayette County Bar Association, 2005 - 2006
- Director
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- Kentucky Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
- Member
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- American Bar Association, Sections on Litigation and Labor and
Employment Law
- Member
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- Kentucky Bar Foundation
- Life Fellow
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- Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Criminal Justice Commission,
2004 - Present
- Commission Member
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- Fayette County Pro Bono Program, Inc.; Member, Board of Directors, 2003
- Present
- Legal Aid of the Bluegrass, Inc., Member, Board of Directors, 2005 -
Present
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- August 31, 1966, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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