U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner was recommended for the role by Vice President JD Vance, who once thanked him in the 'Hillbilly Elegy' acknowledgements.

Bowling Green lawyer Kyle G. Bumgarner was appointed by President Donald Trump in June to serve as the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Bumgarner is close with Vice President ...

The new U.S. attorney for Louisville and the rest of the Western District of Kentucky is thanked by name in the acknowledgements of now-Vice President JD Vance’s "Hillbilly Elegy," the 2016 memoir ...