LEXINGTON, KY. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) –Kentuckians are mourning the passing of Martha Layne Collins — the Commonwealth’s first and ...
Collins served as governor from 1983 to 1987, when Kentucky governors were limited to one term.  She was only the third woman in U.S. history to be elected governor of a state in her own right.
Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman elected governor of Kentucky, died on Saturday. She was 88. The Democrat's most visible legacy is a sprawling Toyota auto assembly plant — arguably the ...