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Lt. Governor Candidate Jenean Hampton to Join Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame

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The Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame will announce this year’s class of inductees Wednesday, among them is Kentucky’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor. 

Jenean Hampton of Bowling Green joined the Air Force after graduating from high school in Detroit.

“I was one of the only people in my class not to go work for one of the Big Three auto makers, and I wanted to do something more important than make cars, so I joined the Air Force instead as a computer systems officer," said Hampton. 

Hampton spent seven years in the Air Force, which included a deployment to Desert Storm.  She will join 24 others in a formal induction ceremony in Frankfort in September. 

Hampton is on a ticket headed by GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin.  They will face Democratic nominee Jack Conway and his running mate Sannie Overly in the November election.

Lisa is a Scottsville native and WKU alum. She has worked in radio as a news reporter and anchor for 18 years. Prior to joining WKU Public Radio, she most recently worked at WHAS in Louisville and WLAC in Nashville. She has received numerous awards from the Associated Press, including Best Reporter in Kentucky. Many of her stories have been heard on NPR.
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