Meredith is a native of Lexington, KY and graduated from Transylvania University with a BA in History. She started her career in the hotel business and worked for the Winegardner & Hammons Hotel Group in Lexington and Northern Kentucky. Her hotel journey took her to Memphis, TN, with the Peabody Hotel and to, Lexington, KY, Alexandria, VA and Miami, FL, with Radisson Hotels. After several years on the road, Lexington called her home for a position with the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau, where she eventually became the Vice President of Research and Marketing. Most recently, Meredith completed a fifteen-year stint with the Sazerac Company developing and managing their Homeplace tourism destinations at six locations in three different countries. These included the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, KY and locations in Bardstown, KY Fredericksburg, VA, New Orleans, LA, Montreal, Canada and Cognac, France. In October of 2022 Meredith joined Equestrian Events, Inc. as the director of marketing.

Meredith has served on boards with the Southeast Tourism Society, the Travel & Tourism Research Association, the Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission and the Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation, where she is a past president.

She serves on the Parish Council of St Peter’s Catholic Church and was named as one of the Top Women in Business by The Lane Report in spring of 2022.

Meredith lives in Lexington and has one grown son, Alex.