Billy Ray Smith is an American politician from Kentucky who was the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture from 1996 to 2004 and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1982 to 1995. Smith was first elected to the house in 1981 after incumbent representative Buddy Adams retired.[1] He was elected agriculture commissioner in 1995 after incumbent commissioner Ed Logsdon retired to run for Secretary of State.[2] He was reelected in 1999 and term-limited in 2003.[3]