Kyle Thompson is a native of Frankfort, and is again running as a candidate for the Frankfort City Commission. He is a 1994 graduate of Franklin County High School. Mr. Thompson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Kentucky in 1998, with a minor in History. After his undergraduate studies, Kyle graduated from Ohio Northern University College of Law in 2001 where he was honored as a member of the Order of the Barristers and Top Oral Advocate, competing and winning a number of Moot Court competitions. Mr. Thompson passed the Kentucky Bar Examination in 2001 and has been practicing law in Frankfort for more than twenty-one (21) years. A former Assistant Franklin County Attorney and General Counsel of a state agency, Mr. Thompson opened up his own firm fifteen (15) years ago and focused his practice on domestic, criminal, insurance, personal injury, and administrative law. Kyle Thompson is licensed and has practiced before the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. In 2010, Mr. Thompson was sworn into practice by Chief Justice John Roberts before the United States Supreme Court.  In January, 2014, Kyle opened up Capital Court Authority, LLC, a private probation, drug testing, and electronic monitoring company.  Today, less than nine (9) years later, CCA is the largest private probation and judicial drug testing company in the Commonwealth, helping numerous jurisdictions to combat crime and drug use while also helping the most vulnerable in our community to end cycles of poverty and addiction.