The forums will feature 23 candidates in races for city council, fiscal court, sheriff, Hopkinsville mayor, state representative, county clerk and county judge-executive.
Walker is beginning his second year on the school board and said he wants to continue in that elected post as the school system consolidates the two high schools.
The committee that Mayor Wendell Lynch appointed last April is charged with studying the potential impact of switching to nonpartisan elections for city offices.
