Mitch McConnell and Sherrill Redmon were still a young couple when McConnell got his first big break and was elected to the office of Jefferson County Executive Judge in 1977. Redmon spoke briefly about this time at the University of Houston in 2017 during an interview for the “National Women’s Conference: Taking 1977 into the 21st Century.” Redmon explained that as her husband diligently campaigned for the county judge seat for 10 months straight, she cared for their home and children.
Additionally, Redmon worked briefly as an adjunct professor but found the workload too overwhelming and the pay too scant. She moved on to archival work, working at the Kentucky Archives and Records Center as a grad assistant while she finished her Ph.D. in American history. Author Patti Liszkay, who also worked at the archives center with Redmon in the late 70s, described her colleague in a blog post, writing, “Sherrill was a sincere, intense, and purpose-driven person. But at the same time, she was very sweet, kind, and maternal.”
Although Redmon would later call her support of McConnell “ironic” during her University of Houston interview, Liszkay remembered her coworker being supportive of her then-husband, telling Liszkay how happy she was that McConnell finally got the boost to his career that he had been pursuing for all those years.
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