Kathie Hickey is the newest president for the Kentucky Council on Economic Education (KCEE), the state’s only non-profit organization to provide professional development to K-16 educators in economic, financial and entrepreneurial education. Jan Mester, who has served as president since May 2002 and on the council for 25 years, retired Aug. 31. Mester will continue to serve as a program consultant for KCEE in her retirement.