Rachel Pence Foster will serve a third consecutive term as Daviess County’s Property Valuation Administrator after receiving roughly 58% of the votes in the Primary Election on Tuesday.
“I felt speechless seeing the votes, and I’m just glad to get back to work,” Foster said.
Foster earned 4,821 votes compared to the 3,487 cast for her opponent Jason Pagan. No Democrat candidate filed to run, so Foster won’t face a challenger in the General Election.
Foster was hired as deputy to the PVA office in March 2002 and has served in the role since December 2013.
She said watching the voting results live and would have felt good regardless of the outcome, though she said that she was proud of the way she and her race turned out.
“Win or lose, it was gonna be fine. God has a plan and I was willing to listen to whatever it was,” Foster said. “I was calm and I ran a good, fair race and I was ready for the outcome.”
Foster has lived in Daviess County the majority of her life and first stepped foot in the PVA office when she was 10 years old, helping her father in his land surveying business.
Foster graduated from Daviess County High School in 1994, Owensboro Community & Technical College in 1996 and Western Kentucky University in 1998 with a bachelor of science. In addition, she earned her Certified Kentucky Assessors designation in 2016 and Senior Kentucky Assessors designation in 2012.
Foster is a current member of the Owensboro Noon Rotary Club (President 2017/2018), Paul Harris Fellow (Rotary), member of Impact 100 for several years, past member of MLES PTO (president 2013-2015), past board member of The Empowerment Academy, past board member of the Center for Renewable Energy Research and Environmental Stewardship Board, a Kentucky Colonel, past legislative committee member for the PVA Association and proud member of Walnut Memorial Baptist Church.
