Julia Springsteen

Julia Springsteen is an attorney who has spent over a decade supporting people and animals in Kentucky. Elected to the Elizabethtown City Council in November 2020, Julia is also chair of the board of Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland, which serves the food-insecure population of 42 Kentucky counties. For the last three years she has co-chaired the Removing Obstacles subcommittee of the Lincoln Trail Workforce Board to increase workforce participation in the eight-county region. She was appointed to the Animal Control Advisory Board by Governor Andy Beshear in March 2021 to help combat pet overpopulation throughout Kentucky. Julia started her community involvement by cofounding Friends of Hardin County Animal Shelter in 2014 with three friends who shared a vision of reducing pet homelessness and overpopulation in Hardin County. She helped develop the Heels Together Woman’s Fund and has worked on numerous other local boards and projects. Julia and her family moved to Elizabethtown in 2009 from Arlington, Virginia where she was a trial attorney for the National Credit Union Administration. Prior to law school she worked in software marketing and sales. She and her husband Ray have two children and numerous pets.