Mr. Swick is a retired high school teacher and administrator. Mrs. Swick is a retired educational consultant. They are both retired from managing the Area Educational Credit Union after 43 years.

Swick, who's 29, is an associate attorney practicing medical malpractice defense litigation at the law firm of Cruse, Scott, Henderson & Allen in Houston.

Jim Swick has lived the past few decades in Kentucky, but he’ll never feel as at home as he does in his native Paxton.The raconteur has more stories than Aesop, ...