Profil Kim Davis - Kimberly Jean Bailey Davis

Kimberly Jean "Kim" Bailey Davis (born September 17, 1965) is a Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who defied a U.S. Federal Court order requiring that she issue marriage licenses to same couples following the Obergefell v. Hodges U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized same marriage in the United States.

Davis refused to issue a marriage license to David Moore and his partner of 11 years, David Ermold, and to three other couples, including two hetero couples. After a court ordered her to issue licenses as required by law, her lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking to put the lower court's order on hold while she pursued an appeal.

After the Supreme Court denied the application, Davis continued to deny the licenses, saying she was acting "under God's authority". On September 3, 2015, she was jailed for contempt of court and released five days later. Kentucky's attorney general is considering whether a special prosecutor should pursue potential charges of official misconduct against her.

Davis served as Rowan County chief deputy clerk, reporting to her mother, Jean W. Bailey, for 24 years. Kentucky law permits elected county officials to employ their family members and to determine their compensation; it is common practice in the commonwealth.

In 2011, county residents complained about Davis's compensation, an annual wage of $51,812 and an additional $11,301 in overtime and other compensation during 2011. Davis earned substantially more than the county's other chief deputies, including $38,000 for the Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Cline and $36,000 to the Deputy Judge-Executive Jerry Alderman, neither of whom receive overtime pay.

The County Fiscal Court reviewed the compensation of clerks in the office and voted unanimously to cut the department's salary budget by one-third for 2012. In 2014, Bailey chose not to run for re-election.[13] Davis then ran for county clerk as a Democrat