Brett Nolan, '13, Named Deputy General Counsel for Kentucky Governor
General Counsel Stephen Pitt Announces Restructuring of the Office of General Counsel
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 7, 2019) – Stephen Pitt, General Counsel to Governor Matt Bevin, announces a restructuring of the Office of General Counsel, effective immediately, as the result of the hiring of a fourth attorney in the Office, Brett Nolan.
Mr. Nolan, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell prior to joining the law firm of Dinsmore and Shohl, LLP in its Lexington Office. In 2017, he joined the Bevin Administration as General Counsel in the Finance and Administration Cabinet. He left that position in the summer of 2018 to serve as a law clerk to Judge John Nalbandian, whom President Trump had recently appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
The addition of Mr. Nolan as a Deputy General Counsel allows the Office to modify its structure to adapt with the reality of its function. Since the beginning of the Bevin Administration, the Office has assumed the unprecedented role of directly representing the Governor and the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the most significant legal challenges to the constitutionality of Kentucky’s laws, including multiple attacks by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood on Kentucky’s pro-life legislation, challenges to the state’s right-to-work law passed in 2017, a challenge to the state’s Medicaid waiver, and numerous ultimately unsuccessful challenges by the state Attorney General to the Governor’s executive orders.
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