Topic summary
Bert T. Combs
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Bert Combs.
Death and legacy
In addition to the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway, Bert T. Combs Lake, an artificial lake constructed in 1963 in Clay County, is named in Combs' honor. On April 20, 2007, two life-sized statues of Combs were dedicated—one in Stanton, near the parkway that bears his name, and another in the county courthouse in Prestonsburg. Combs' widow, Sara Walter Combs, became the first woman to serve on the Kentucky Supreme Court in 1993 and thereafter sat on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, where she was chief judge from 2004 to 2010, also a first for a woman.