Jim Becker
General-election interview · recorded Tue, Oct 13, 2026
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Jim Becker
On the November 3, 2026 ballot for Magistrate, District 5. See the full race page.
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Becker said the run is for Hardin County Magistrate in District 5, and Becker is a lawyer who spent 25 years at UofL. Becker described spending a couple of years researching an alternative weed ordinance, drafting a replacement and presenting it to city council. Becker supports the 180-day data center moratorium and said the first concrete priority is using that time to build an effective plan. Becker named sewer infrastructure as the investment to push for, building on momentum from sewer work already underway through American Rescue Plan Act funding, before that federal money runs out.
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Jim Becker
Candidate for Hardin County Magistrate, District 5
Jim Becker's family moved to Hardin County in 1974, when his father, a career FBI agent, was transferred from Louisville. He graduated from Elizabethtown High School and attended Elizabethtown Community College (now ECTC) before earning his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Louisville. He has been licensed to practice law in Kentucky since 1998.
Jim spent 25 years leading IT at UofL’s Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, the last 16 as an assistant dean. There he chaired the law school’s Technology Committee, served on University-level IT advisory committees, and helped lead personnel searches, including two Dean searches. He returned to Elizabethtown in 2021 and now works for the exam software company Extegrity.
Since coming home, Jim researched and wrote a Managed Natural Landscapes Ordinance, which is currently before the Elizabethtown City Council. This project grew out of his and his wife Kim’s work on First Presbyterian Elizabethtown's Creation Care Team. Kim’s family opened the Whistle Stop Restaurant in Glendale in 1975, and Jim waited tables there in college.
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Data Center Regulation
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Residential Zoning Reform
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Public Transit
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