Retired public defender Thomas Glover will give a lecture titled “The Constitution, the Census and Gerrymandering” at noon Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the Rotary Learning Resource Center at Hopkinsville Community College.
Glover’s lecture will include an explanation of how seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are appropriated based on the census count every 10 years, and he’ll discuss how Kentucky lost a House seat following the 1990 Census.
A U.S. Census Bureau employee will join Glover and provide information on how the count will be conducted locally. She’ll also outline what an accurate count means to Christian County and provide details about the availability of census jobs.
The lecture coincides with U.S. Constitution Day, which was established in 2004 to commemorate Sept. 17, 1787 – the day delegates signed the Constitution in Philadelphia.
Glover is the former regional manager for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy and a retired professor of political science at Murray State University. He earned a master’s degree in public administration from Murray and his law degree at the University of Kentucky.
Glover is now a Donovan scholar at HCC. He lives in Hopkinsville with his wife, Pam, a local audiologist.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
