Kentucky: Office of State Budget Director

Mary E. Lassiter

Secretary of the Executive Cabinet
and
State Budget Director

Mary currently serves as the Secretary of the Executive Cabinet and State Budget Director for Governor Steve Beshear. She has been an employee of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for over 25 years, spending the last 10 years in the Office of State Budget Director in various roles, including Acting State Budget Director in 2003. She previously served as a financial analyst in the Office of Financial Management and Economic Analysis and served as a special assistant to Governors Wilkinson, Patton and Fletcher on economic development, workers' compensation and tax policy issues. Mary holds both a BBA and MBA from the University of Kentucky. She served on the Board of the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center representing the Executive Branch from 1999 to 2008.