As Attorney General, Andy fought tirelessly for Kentucky families, taking on opioid manufacturers and investigating and prosecuting rogue doctors and drug traffickers.
That experience and the values Andy grew up learning led him to run for and become Kentucky’s Attorney General in 2016. While serving as one of the nation’s top consumer lawyers, Andy tailored his practice to represent non-profit youth organizations, helping implement background checks and other protective measures to keep kids safe. Serving KentuckyĪfter marrying, Andy and Britainy moved back to Kentucky and Andy continued his legal career in his home state. After law school, Andy worked at an international law firm based in Washington, D.C., and it was during that time that he met his wife, Britainy. As governor, Beshear is prioritizing public education, health care, better paying jobs, and public pensions.Īndy graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a Dean’s Scholar. He is the son of Steve and Jane Beshear, the 61st governor and first lady. Andy Beshear grew up in Fayette, Franklin, and Clark counties and graduated from Henry Clay High School. The artist, Melanie Hardin Bates, said the first set of steps embody the accomplishments of the Beshear administration, while the steps leading up to the left represent the path to the future.On December 10, 2019, Governor Andy Beshear was sworn in as the 63rd governor of Kentucky. In the portrait, Beshear is standing in front of the steps at the outside of the Rotunda. I want to thank her for the time she put in, for the effort at making sure this isn’t just a portrait of me, that it truly represents the time that we have lived in, the adversity that we have overcome, the hope and optimism that is in front of us, the kindness and compassion that I hope we collectively have governed with, during some of the toughest times.”īeshear also had a message to his two children, Will and Lila: “I’ll bet all you wanted to do today was look at a giant painting of me.” “But thankfully, Britainy pretty much ran the process.
He said he felt strange standing by the portrait, because he’s used to looking at himself in the mirror maybe once a day. I’m pretty excited, because when I am done as governor, this portrait is going to hang right next to my dad. “It’s eventually placed in our beautiful Kentucky History Center in the Hall of Governors. Beshear pointed out that each portrait hangs inside the main entrance to the Capitol while its subject is on office.
He said it wasn’t until the 1940s that the governors had to arrange for their own portrait.
“In 1909, the Kentucky Historical Society authorized the commissioning of portraits for all the other governors we didn’t have collected yet.” Bradley requested that the official portrait of the governors would be assembled in his office,” Alvey said. “The history of the official portrait in the Hall of Governors dates back to 1897, when Gov.
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