From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Louis Stout was born in Cynthiana, KY, where he graduated from Cynthiana High School. He played basketball under Joe B. Hall at Regis College [now Regis University] in Denver, CO.

In 1994 he became the first African American to serve as the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Commissioner, making him the first African American in the nation to head a state athletic association. He was with the association from 1971 till his retirement in 2002.

Prior to working for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association he was a basketball coach at the old Dunbar High School in Lexington, KY (1965-1967) and, after school integration, became head basketball coach at Tates Creek High School in Lexington.

Stout was the author of Shadows of the Past: A History of the Kentucky High School Athletic League. In 2011, he was named president of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). He has been honored with inductions into the National Federation of High Schools' Hall of Fame, the Kentucky Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, the AAU Hall of Fame, and the AAU Softball Umpire Hall of Fame. He also was inducted into the Dawahares/KHSAA Hall of Fame, an organization wherein he had championed the induction of many, many athletes.

Louis Stout was the son of Elizabeth Wilson Ford and John Stout, Sr. and the brother of Fielding "Toke" Coleman.

For more listen to the Louis Stout interviews listed in the Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History SPOKEdb (some are online [links provided], others must be requested at the Nunn Oral History Center in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky); and M. Fields, "Former KHSAA commissioner Louis Stout dies," Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/9/2012.