13 Facts About Ernesto Scorsone

Ernesto M Scorsone was born on February 15,1952 and is an LGBT advocate, American lawyer, politician and retired judge from Kentucky.

Ernesto Scorsone was born in Palermo, Italy, on February 15,1952.

Ernesto Scorsone's family immigrated to the United States in 1960.

In 1998 Ernesto Scorsone was the Democratic nominee for the open 6th district seat in the United States House of Representatives, but he lost the general election to Republican Ernie Fletcher by seven points.

Ernesto Scorsone led the legal battle to overturn Kentucky's sodomy statute and a successful legislative fight against a constitutional amendment to reinstate the law.

Judge Ernesto Scorsone denied the Kentucky Department of Health and Family Service's request for a temporary injunction to close the EMW Women's Clinic, citing the undue burden to the people's right to have an abortion and the closure of the clinic would have a disproportional impact to Kentucky by the clinic being only one of two facilities that will provide an abortion within the state.

Judge Ernesto Scorsone applied the decision consistently to other cases involving similar defendants, including a case against Justin Smith and Efain Dias, who, along with juvenile co-defendant Roman Gonzales, who is being tried as an adult, were indicted in the murder of University of Kentucky student and Kentucky Kernel photographer, Jonathan Krueger, in the course of a robber on Maxwell Street in 2015.

Bredhold's defense team asked Ernesto Scorsone to extend that exclusion to people 21 and younger.

Judge Ernesto Scorsone swore in Lexington's new mayor, Linda Gorton, at the University of Kentucky on January 6,2019.

Ernesto Scorsone has particularly focused on issues related to health care, gender bias and LGBTQ initiatives.

Ernesto Scorsone was a founder of JustFundKY, a nonprofit education organization, and led the organization's fundraising campaign that created an endowment of more than $1 million to fund anti-discrimination efforts in Kentucky.

Ernesto Scorsone has been recognized by the Kentucky Human Rights Commission, the Kentucky Conference for Community and Justice, the American Heart Association, the Bluegrass Chapter of the Kentucky Fairness Alliance, the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and was designated "One of Ten Best Legislators" by the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Ernesto Scorsone is a recipient of the Charles W Anderson Medal, named for Kentucky's first African-American legislator to recognize an extraordinary commitment to freedom and justice.