Profession: Hardin County Judge-Executive

Education: Graduated from Missouri Southern State College with a Bachelor's degree
Graduated with a Master's degree from Drury College.
Also graduated from: National Defense University Armed Forces Staff College, Air Force Command and Staff College, Army Command and General Staff College, Army Combined Arms and Services Staff School, United States Army Engineer School

Family: Married with one child.

Organizations: Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Hardin Memorial Hospital
Kentucky County Judge/Executive Association
Serves on the Association’s Executive and Legislative Committees
Chairman, Radcliff/Elizabethtown Metropolitan Planning Organization
Vice-Chairman, One Knox Policy Council
Lincoln Trail Area Development District
Serves on the District’s Executive Committee

Experience: Judge Berry retired from active military service as a Regular Army (RA) Lieutenant Colonel in 1998. While serving for twenty years as an Army Corps of Engineer officer, he obtained a wide variety of experience in civil engineering and construction, environmental clean-up, law enforcement, leadership, and fiscal management.
In addition to the customary troop leading positions normally associated with a twenty year career, Judge Berry also served in several positions providing him unique experiences that serve him well as County Judge/Executive. These positions include:
Two years as a Construction Project Manager for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Three years as the Environmental Engineer for the Defense Nuclear Agency
Two years as Chief of the Department of Defense’s North Central Counter-drug Team
Two years at the Pentagon as the Operations Officer for the Army’s Chief of Engineers
Judge Berry is currently serving in his eighth year as Hardin County Judge/Executive.

Why Running: To continue the sound fiscal management of Hardin County Government's resources
To provide proven leadership for continuing the infrastructure improvements and community development required to accommodate and capitalize on the rapid growth resulting from BRAC
To keep facilitating economic development and growth for a prosperous economy