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Biography
George Unseld was elected to the first Louisville Metro Council in November 2002. He was relected to a full four year term in November of 2004. Previously, he represented the city’s Tenth Ward on the Board of Aldermen, beginning in January 1999.
He represents the neighborhoods of Algonquin, California, Limerick, Old Louisville,Park Hill, Russell, St. Joseph, Shelby Park, Smoketown-Jackson, Taylor-Berry, University, and the Central Business District.
He is currently Vice-Chair of the Rules, Ethics & Appointments Committee. He is also a membera member of the Metro Council's Budget, Contracts & Appointments and Minority Affairs Committees.
A longtime educator, Councilman Unseld has held both administrative and teaching positions within the Jefferson County Public Schools. He earned his master’s degree in education and his Rank I from Western Kentucky University.
He is a member and former director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; former director of the Salvation Army Newburg Boys and Girls Club; and a member of the Greater Louisville Alliance of Black School Educators.
Unseld has received numerous awards including the Lincoln Foundation Community Service Award in 1996, and was given the Newburg Achiever Award in 1992. In 1994 he received the Evelyn Waldrop Awarded for Martin Luther King Day from Jefferson County government, and in 1991 was presented with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for outstanding community service from the Louisville chapter of P.U.S.H.
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