Meade serves as Speaker pro tempore of the Kentucky House of Representatives, a constitutional office and the second-highest position in the 100-member legislative chamber.

[2] Meade attended Lexington Community College and the University of Kentucky, graduating from the latter with a Bachelor of Science.

[9] After spending the better part of a year gathering testimony and ideas for improving Kentucky's adoption and foster care systems, Meade filed legislation to revamp the systems in the form of House Bill 1, making it the top priority of the House of Representatives during the 2018 session.

[10] Meade described the legislation as designed to protect "the most tender citizens of the Commonwealth" with the goal of doing what is best for children by streamlining the family court system to place children into homes in a quicker manner, eliminating barriers to adoption, and giving foster parents more rights.

[15] Meade, an adoptive father in his own right, now serves as co-chairman of the child welfare legislative oversight committee that was established according to House Bill 1.