Gracie Furnish was elected to serve as the 2017-2018 National FFA Eastern Region Vice President on October 28.  During the coming year, she will travel over 100,000 miles serving as an ambasador for the National FFA Organization and the agriculture industry as a whole.  In addition to attending local, state, and national FFA functions, she will work with industry leaders, sponsors, and policy makers to advance agricultural education and the FFA.  

Furnish is a Harrison County native and an Agricultural Education major at the University of Kentucky.  She served as the 2016-2017 State Secretary for the Kentucky FFA Association.  She is the daughter of Brian and Amy-Jill Furnish of Cynthianna.  Her FFA Advisors are Savannah Robin, Erin Butler, and Chris Thompson.