Jeffery H. Hoover was born in Albany, Kentucky on January 18, 1960, the oldest child of the late Welby and Mae Hoover. In 1966, Hoover and his family moved to Jamestown, Russell County, Kentucky where his father began the first FM radio station in the county.    

 

Hoover graduated Russell County High School in 1978 and graduated from Centre College in 1982 with a B. A. in Government. He is a 1987 graduate of Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he served a Senior Class President. Hoover received the Distinguished Alumnae Award from Centre College in 2012.  

 

Hoover began the practice of law in his hometown of Jamestown in 1988 after serving as law clerk for a year for former Circuit Court Judge Philip Morgan. In 1992, Hoover opened his own law office, Hoover and Associates Law on the square in his hometown of Jamestown and has been practicing since then, focusing his practice on criminal defense, personal injury, family law, and estate matters.

 

Hoover was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives representing the 83rd district in 1996.  His father, Welby Hoover, had been elected to the Kentucky House in 1986.  Upon his father’s untimely passing later that year, Hoover’s mother, Mae Hoover, was elected to the Kentucky House in 1987.   When Hoover was elected in 1996, he became the only person ever elected to the Kentucky House whose parents had also been previously elected.   He was selected to serve as House Minority Caucus Chair in 1999, and served as House Minority Leader from 2001 to 2017. Hoover unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of the State of Kentucky in 2007 as the running mate of former U.S. Rep. Anne Northup.

 

In 2015, Hoover became the longest serving Republican Leader in the history of the Kentucky House of Representatives. After the 2016 elections when Republicans gained a supermajority in the State House, Hoover was selected as Speaker of the House becoming the first Republican speaker in Kentucky in 95 years.

Hoover is a member of the Russell County Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, Fifth District Republican Party Hall of Fame, the 12th Region Boys High School Basketball Hall of Fame, among numerous awards during his 24 year service in the Kentucky General Assembly.

 

Hoover and his wife Karyn married in 1992 and are the proud parents of three daughters:   Blair Conner (husband Ben), who is the Director of Social Media at the University of Kentucky in Lexington; Ryan Queenan (husband Patrick), who teaches special education at Henry Clay High School in Lexington; and Evan Hoover, currently attending the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The Hoover family attends First Baptist Church in Russell Springs, Kentucky.

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Contact: jeff@jeffhooverlaw.com