Melissa Strange

Melissa Strange married her high school best friend, Andy, and the couple have two sons.¹ She grew up in Villa Hills, attended Dixie Heights High School and now lives in Erlanger, keeping her family and working life in northern Kentucky.¹

Strange earned an international studies degree at Northern Kentucky University, focusing on economics and political science, then completed an MBA at Thomas More while working full time.¹ Her 27 years in the food industry began with a private flavor company that became part of a larger global business.¹ She now works as a supply chain management director at Archer-Daniels-Midland in Erlanger and is making her first run for office.²

Her platform calls for protecting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, lowering prescription costs and expanding access to addiction treatment.³ She also supports universal preschool, expanded paid family leave and a caregivers tax credit.³ She backs right to repair protections for owners of farm and consumer equipment and opposes data center projects without community approval.³ A proposed national neonatal intensive care policy would protect workers from having to return to work while their babies remain critically ill.³

Strange faces Republican Ed Gallrein, Libertarian Jeremy Todd and independent write in candidate Peter Harmon Williams in the race to succeed Thomas Massie.⁴ She identifies affordability as her first priority, advocating a higher minimum wage and a ban on stock trading by government leaders.⁵