Democratic nominee for attorney general, Rep. Pam Stevenson of Louisville, is not currently licensed to practice law in the state of Kentucky.
Her campaign, however, insists that Stevenson is on track to being admitted by the Kentucky Bar Association by August, and was not previously a member because her long career as a litigator in the U.S. Air Force led her to focus on matters of national and international importance.
Stevenson’s legal work since she retired from the Air Force has been just across the Ohio River from Louisville in Clarksville, where she is licensed by the Indiana State Bar Association, according to court records. She has also taught at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.
The Indiana bar shows Stevenson is in good standing and has been licensed in the Hoosier State since 1984.
According to the Stevenson campaign, she has been licensed in Indiana but not Kentucky because the Kentucky Bar Association requires a separate ethics test to become a member. Indiana’s bar admission requirements did not include such a test when Stevenson, a Louisville native, graduated from the Indiana University School of Law in 1984.
Stevenson recently took the test and passed that test with a score of 98 out of 100, and based on the result is on track to become a member of that state bar by August, according to the campaign.
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