Goodwine pulled 89,332 votes in Fayette County, compared to her opponent, Erin Izzo who brought in 21,636 votes.
Judge Goodwine was elected to the Kentucky Court of Appeals in November 2018 and was re-elected unopposed in November 2022 to represent Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Madison, Scott, and Woodford counties. Chief Judge Larry Thompson named her Chief Judge Pro Tem in January 2023.
Goodwine will become the second Black Supreme Court justice, following William E. McAnulty of Louisville, and will be the first elected Black female justice on the high court. Cynthia Elliott was the first to serve as a Black woman as special justice to the Supreme Court of Kentucky, appointed by former Gov. Paul E. Patton.
Judge Goodwine received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky, Carol Martin Gatton College of Business, in 1991. She graduated from the University of Kentucky, College of Law in 1994. Admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in October 1994, she was in private practice with the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs from 1994 until her appointment to the district court bench in August 1999. She became the first Black woman to be appointed and subsequently elected to the bench in Fayette County.
