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.