Who is Robby Mills? What to know about Daniel Cameron's running mate

The ticket is set: Sen. Robby Mills will be Daniel Cameron's running mate this fall in the Kentucky governor's race.

Here's what to know about the lieutenant governor candidate.

Who is Robby Mills?

Mills, 56, has been in Kentucky’s state legislature since first being elected to the House in 2016.

After serving a single two-year term in the House, Mills was elected to the state Senate in 2018.

Prior to joining the state legislature, Mills served as a city commissioner of Henderson from 1998 to 2016. He also had unsuccessful runs for a seat on the Henderson Fiscal Court and for mayor of Henderson, a city of nearly 29,000 people along the Ohio River in Henderson County.

He has a degree in business management from Oral Roberts University - a private, Christian school in Tulsa, Oklahoma - and he has experience running his family’s dry cleaning business.

What is Robby Mills' hometown?

Mills lives in Henderson. He currently represents Henderson, Hopkins, Union and Webster counties, and previously represented part of Daviess County.

Key bills from Robby Mills

Mills is perhaps best known from his legislation to ban transgender girls and women from playing on the sports teams aligned with their gender identity, which passed overwhelmingly in 2022.

This year he sponsored bills that made hazing a Class D felony, prohibited public schools from deducting union dues from teachers’ paychecks and made it more difficult for utility companies to shut down coal-fired power plants.

He also backed a bill to ban TikTok from state devices — a measure that passed nearly unanimously and was signed into law.

In Cameron's press conference announcing his running mate, Mills defended his vote for Senate Bill 150, a wide-ranging bill targeting transgender youth that bans gender-affirming health care for such kids.

The campaign of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Democratic Party criticized Mills for his support of former Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's controversial pension bill in 2018, which was later struck down as unconstitutional by the Kentucky Supreme Court. Mills then supported passing an identical bill in a special session called by Bevin later that year, which failed.

Mills is the chairman of the Senate State and Local Government Committee.

This story may be updated.

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Kentucky governor's race: What to know about Robby Mills