LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- An attorney and former appointee of Gov. Matt Bevin has won the Republican nomination in Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District.
Vickie Yates Brown Glisson defeated two other candidates for the chance to face Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth in November.
Glisson was an attorney with the Louisville firm Frost Brown Todd. In 2015, Bevin appointed her secretary for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the state's largest government agency. She resigned in January to run for Congress. She opposes the Affordable Care Act, saying it keeps health care costs high by eliminating competition.
Yarmuth is a Louisville native who has been in Congress since 2007, where he is the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
The district encompasses most of Louisville, Kentucky's largest city.
