Russell Coleman

Running for this seat

• Registered a campaign committee: Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, May 22, 2024
• Reported by news coverage: Kentucky Lantern, June 26, 2026

Not on the ballot yet: the official list comes from Kentucky Secretary of State. How we list candidates.

Background

Kentucky Attorney General

Elected Kentucky's 52nd attorney general on November 7, 2023. He was previously U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky (nominated 2017), a partner at Frost Brown Todd, a prosecutor in the Oldham Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, legal counsel to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, and an FBI special agent, including a temporary assignment in Iraq. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kentucky.

Holds this office now.

In their own words

• "Back the Blue. Protect Families."
• "Protect Those Who Protect Us"
• Protect the home "from violence, from predators, from drugs"
• "Make Kentucky the safest place to live, work, and play"
• "Pro-life, pro-gun, pro-freedom"

From the candidate's own campaign materials.

Left–right placement

No published research score covers Russell Coleman yet, so we don't place them on the spectrum.

Links

• Campaign site
• facebook.com
• twitter.com
• youtube.com

Sources

• ag.ky.gov/about/Pages/Attorney-General.aspx
• rcforag.com/
• secure.kentucky.gov/kref/publicsearch/CandidateSearch?ElectionDate=5%2