Jacqueline Coleman was born on June 9,1982 and is an American educator and politician serving as the 58th lieutenant governor of Kentucky since 2019.
11 Facts About Jacqueline Coleman
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Jacqueline Coleman has worked as an administrator, high school teacher, and high school basketball coach.
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Jacqueline Coleman attended Mercer County High School in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where she played basketball.
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Jacqueline Coleman enrolled at Centre College to study history, earned a bachelor's degree in 2004, and played college basketball for the Centre Colonels.
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Jacqueline Coleman earned a master's degree in political science at the University of Louisville in 2008, and was a graduate assistant on the Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team.
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Jacqueline Coleman ran in a 2014 election to represent the 55th district in the Kentucky House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.
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In 2013, Jacqueline Coleman founded Lead Kentucky, a nonprofit organization focused on education policy reform.
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Jacqueline Coleman became assistant principal at Nelson County High School in Bardstown, Kentucky in 2017, a position she held until her resignation in November 2019, following her election as lieutenant governor.
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Jacqueline Coleman is a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky, where she is studying educational leadership.
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Jacqueline Coleman's father, named Jack, served in the Kentucky House, representing the 55th district from 1991 through 2004.
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Jacqueline Coleman has another daughter, a former student she coached, whom she and O'Bryan adopted in December 2019, and is the stepmother to O'Bryan's two sons from a previous relationship.