In Octo­ber of 2012, fol­low­ing a forum host­ed by NAMI Lex­ing­ton (Nation­al Alliance on Men­tal Ill­ness) and attend­ed by numer­ous stake­hold­ers from the men­tal health and crim­i­nal jus­tice com­mu­ni­ties, a com­mit­tee was formed in an effort to ascer­tain if a men­tal health court could be imple­ment­ed in Fayette Coun­ty. Based on this committee’s efforts, Ken­tucky Supreme Court Chief Jus­tice, John D. Minton, Jr., on July 7, 2014 signed an Order Approv­ing Local Rules for the Men­tal Health Court for Fayette Coun­ty. The first ses­sion of this court was held on Novem­ber 24, 2014.