ATTORNEY GENERAL SWEARING-IN CEREMONY

Just after midnight on January 6, 2020, Daniel Cameron was sworn in as Kentucky’s 51st Attorney General.

Cameron, a 2011 graduate of the University of Louisville School of Law, is the state’s first African American Attorney General and the first Republican to hold that office in more than 70 years.

His swearing-in ceremony was held in Louisville Law’s historic Allen Court Room and was attended by a crowd of supporters and colleagues. Also in attendance were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who offered remarks during the ceremony, and Denise Clayton, Chief Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and 1976 a graduate of Louisville Law. Judge Clayton administered the oath.

As an undergraduate student at the University of Louisville, Cameron was a McConnell Scholar; he later served as the senator’s legal counsel. In law school, Cameron was president of the Student Bar Association and a member of the Louisville Law Review. After law school graduation, he clerked for the Hon. Gregory Van Tatenhove, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and entered private practice at Stites & Harbison and Frost Brown Todd.

Dean Colin Crawford delivered welcoming remarks, applauding Cameron’s role as a public servant and the importance of public service to the School of Law’s namesake, Justice Louis D. Brandeis.

Denise Clayton, Chief Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and a 1976 graduate of Louisville Law, administered the oath to Attorney General Cameron.