Jacqueline Coleman is a high school teacher and a basketball coach. She grew up on her family's farm in Burgin, where her dad, a state representative, showed her early on that public service is about fighting for the people around you, not the politicians above you. Those values stuck.

 

As a coach, Jacqueline built programs from the ground up and led a team to the KHSAA Sweet Sixteen. She'll tell you that coaching teaches you something you can't learn anywhere else: every player has a role, every baby step counts, and no matter how good your team gets, there's always more work to do. She met her husband, Chris, on the sidelines. He coached the boys' team, she coached the girls'. And together they built a blended, basketball-loving family with their four kids: Will, Nate, Emma, and Evelynne.

 

For the past six and a half years, Jacqueline has served as Kentucky's Lieutenant Governor. Under the Beshear-Coleman Administration, Kentucky has shattered every economic development record in state history — $48 billion in new investment and nearly 70,000 jobs created. 

 

But Jacqueline will be the first to tell you the numbers only tell part of the story. She's spent those years waiving GED testing fees, securing $40 million for school-based mental health services, delivering paid family leave to state employees for the first time, and sitting at kitchen tables across Kentucky listening to what people actually need.

 

That's exactly why she's running for Governor. Kentucky's economic momentum is real, it's historic, and Jacqueline has no intention of letting up. And Jacqueline believes that here in Kentucky, we take care of business by taking care of people. The next chapter has to be about strengthening our schools, supporting Kentucky families, and making sure every single person in this commonwealth has a fair shot at the future we're building together. 

 

A coach's job is to make every tomorrow better than today. That's the job she's running to do.