Dan Kemp served two terms as Hopkinsville’s mayor, from 2007 through 2014. He earned his law degree from the University of Kentucky and served four years in the U.S. Army as an officer in the Judge Advocate General Corps. He has practiced law in Hopkinsville since 1974 and has served on several local and state boards, including Board of Governors of the Kentucky Bar Association, the Executive Board of the Kentucky League of Cities, the Murray State University Board of Regents and the Jennie Stuart Medical Center Board.