Kenton County Fiscal Court approved a contract Tuesday for Daniel Mathew as shelter director of Kenton County Animal Services, effective Nov. 30.
Mathew told the court he is excited to serve “the four-legged citizens as much as the two-legged.”
Mathew is returning to Kenton County after spending over 21 years with the City of Covington, eventually working as the chief of Covington Fire and EMS. After retiring from the fire department, he also worked as an executive director for Kenton County dispatch until he left the region in 2021.
He will join a shelter that has seen a fair bit of recent turnover. The court terminated Director Kelly Sauer in July and named Whitney Quint interim director. Sauer had been hired in May 2025 after her predecessor, Kelsey Maccombs, resigned that February.
