Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced on Friday, July 20, 2018 the appointment of Erica Galyon, a Kentucky attorney, as Assistant Secretary of State and chief of staff for the Secretary of State’s office effective August 1, 2018. Galyon is associate general counsel at Farm Credit Mid-America. The current Assistant Secretary of State, Lindsay Hughes Thurston, will assume the role of senior advisor to the Secretary and general counsel.