Somerset-Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce luncheon

Quarles was first elected Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture in 2015. He was re-elected in 2019, winning 117 of 120 counties.

Quarles’s outspoken advocacy for farmers has been recognized on the regional and national level. He has served as President of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA), as President of the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (SASDA), and as Chairman of the Republican Agriculture Commissioners Committee (RACC).

Quarles graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2006 with three undergraduate majors and two graduate degrees. In 2008, he graduated with a Master’s degree in higher education from Harvard University. He received his law degree from the University of Kentucky and a doctorate in higher education from Vanderbilt University in 2018.

A native of Scott County, he grew up on his family’s farm in central Kentucky, an area where they have lived and farmed for more than 200 years.

Special thanks to Pulaski County Farm Bureau & Prairie Farms Dairy for sponsoring our November luncheon.