Background
Cox, Ricky Lee was born on July 6, 1958 in Campbellsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Wallace Alvin and Naomi Jean (Wise) Cox.
Cox, Ricky Lee was born on July 6, 1958 in Campbellsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Wallace Alvin and Naomi Jean (Wise) Cox.
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Campbellsville College, 1979. DDM, University Kentucky, 1983.
Cox was elected to the legislature in the 1996 general election, after the 10-year incumbent Republican, Ray H. Altman, a Campbellsville insurance agency owner, declined to seek a sixth two-year term. In 1998, Cox defeated Democrat Russell Montgomery of Campbellsville, 6,640 votes (503 percent) to 6,571 (497 percent), to gain his second and last term in the legislative chamber. As a legislator, Cox supported legislation in March 2000 to require that evolution if taught in Kentucky public school be presented as a factor only within the individual species, not across species lines.
Cox, a Campbellsville native, has nine siblings, including Nancy Jane Cox Kenny (born 1967), Mission Kentucky of 1990, who is a television anchorwoman in Lexington.
Both Nancy and Emily Cox are Campbellsville natives, but they entered their respective state pageants as "Mission Bowling Green", where each was living at the time. Emily Cox began piano lessons at the age of five.
Nancy Kenny is a talented gospel singer. Emily"s mother is the former Jenny L. Smith (born ca 1960) of Campbellsville, the wife of Ricky Cox.
She has two siblings, Evan L. Cox and Evily Cox.
In 2000, Republican Russian Mobley, a retired Campbellsville University theatre arts professor, was elected to succeed Cox, who did not seek a third term.
Captain dental corporations, 1983-1986. Member American Dental Association, S. Center Dental Society, American Society Dentistry for Children, Clinical Foundation Orthodontics.
Married Jenny Lynn Smith, July 9, 1983. 1 child, Emily Annual.