Kate Payton

Kate E. Payton has joined the law firm of English, Priest & Owsley LLP as senior counsel effective July 15.

Prior to joining ELPO Law as senior counsel, she served as an associate attorney for Broderick & Davenport PLLC and most recently as a staff attorney for Warren Circuit Family Court Judge David A. Lanphear. 

A Hart County native, Payton graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. She then continued her pursuit of becoming an attorney at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, earning her J.D. in 2015. During law school, she worked as a student extern for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy and was selected to participate in the Kentucky Innocence Project.