Tina Ward-Pugh was elected to serve on the first Louisville Metro Council in November 2002. She was re-elected in November of 2006. As Ninth District Councilwoman, she represents the neighborhoods of Crescent Hill, Clifton, Clifton Heights, Cherokee Gardens, Cherokee Woods, Irish Hill, Lexington Road-Seneca Park, Brownsboro-Zorn, Reidlonn, Seneca Gardens, Park Hills, Beals Branch, Penwood, and Greenleaves, and a few streets on the western edge of the City of St. Matthews.

Councilwoman Ward-Pugh currently serves as Chair of the Metro Council’s Transportation & Public Works Committee. She also serves as a member of the Planning/Zoning, Land Design & Developement; Parks, Libraries & Cultural Activities; and the Accountability & Audit Committees.

From January 1999 until December 2002, Councilwoman Ward-Pugh served as First Ward Alderwoman and chaired the ad hoc committees on Fairness and Living Wage issues. She received the Jefferson County KY Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers “Social Worker of the Year 1999.”

Councilwoman Ward-Pugh holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she was president of the Student Government Association and Class President her senior year. Her civic and neighborhood involvement includes membership in the Crescent Hill Community Council, Fairness Campaign, Frankfort Avenue Business Association, League of Women Voters, National Organization for Women, Friends of the Crescent Hill Library, Peterson-Dumesnil House Foundation, and a past board member of the Louisville Tenants Association. She has been Honorary Chair of the Women4Women Repair Affair since 1999, which is an annual voluntary event where dozens of women and girls come together with New Directions to spend a Saturday to rehab homes for low-income folks served by New Directions.

Ward-Pugh owns a small contracting and restoration business and was the 2006 recipient of the Louisville chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners “Public Policy Advocate of the Year.”  She formerly served as legislative assistant to former First Ward Alderman Scotty Greene, and served as the administrative director of the Coalition for the Homeless with Sue Speed, one of her mentors.