Davis's 2011 compensation was $51,812 (equivalent to $62,412 in 2021) in wages with an additional $11,301 (equivalent to $13,613 in 2021) in overtime and other compensation. By 1991, she was serving as chief deputy clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, reporting to her mother, Rowan County Clerk Jean W. Kim Davis was born on September 17, 1965, in Jackson, Kentucky. A few weeks after her release from jail, Davis met with Pope Francis in Washington, D.C.Ĭlass=notpageimage| The county seat of Rowan County, Kentucky is Morehead, Kentucky. Supreme Court to Alabama Governor George Wallace's " Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" in 1963. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said that Davis's imprisonment was part of the "criminalization of Christianity", while Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin compared Davis's refusal to obey the decision of the U.S. Kaplan described Davis as "the clearest example of someone who wants to use a religious liberty argument to discriminate", while law professor Eugene Volokh maintained that an employer must try to accommodate religious employees' beliefs. Davis then modified the Kentucky marriage licenses used in her office so that they no longer mentioned her name.ĭavis's actions drew strong and mixed reactions from prominent politicians, legal experts, and religious leaders. Davis was released after five days in jail under the condition that she not interfere with the efforts of her deputy clerks, who had begun issuing marriage licenses to all couples in her absence. Davis continued to defy the court order by refusing to issue marriage licenses "under God's authority" she was ultimately jailed for contempt of court. Supreme Court, but the application to appeal was denied. District Court to start issuing marriage licenses. Davis, was filed, and Davis was ordered by the U.S. Citing personal religious objections to same-sex marriage, Davis began denying marriage licenses to all couples to avoid issuing them to same-sex couples. Hodges, and all county clerks in Kentucky were ordered to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The following year, the Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. in the November 6, 2018, election and vacated the office on January 7, 2019.ĭavis was elected Rowan County Clerk in 2014.
She was defeated by Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr. federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Kimberly Jean Davis ( née Bailey born September 17, 1965) is a former county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, who gained international attention in August 2015 when she defied a U.S.