Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes will speak at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week. Grimes is one of dozens of speakers added to the agenda Thursday.
The secretary of state is in her second term in office, having narrowly won re-election in November. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton campaigned for Grimes several times in her 2014 Senate campaign challenging Senator Mitch McConnell.
The Clinton family is close with Grimes and her family, including Jerry Lundergan, Grimes' father and former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
Grimes' mother, Charlotte Lundergan, is a superdelegate pledged to support Clinton.