Kyle Thompson is a native of Frankfort. He is a 1994 graduate of Franklin County High School. Kyle received a BA in Political Science and Government, with an emphasis in racial and political tolerance, from the University of Kentucky in 1998, with a minor in History. After his undergraduate studies, Kyle graduated from Ohio Northern University College of Law in 2001 where he was honored as a member of the Order of the Barristers and one of the School's Top Oral Advocate, competing and winning a number of Moot Court competitions. Kyle passed the Kentucky Bar Examination in July, 2001 and was sworn in before the Kentucky Supreme Court on October 19, 2001. After first practicing for his uncle and local legal icon, the late Herbert Liebman before his passing, Kyle was sworn in as an Assistant Franklin County Attorney where he prosecuted juvenile and abuse, neglect and dependency cases.  Kyle then became the youngest General Counsel appointed to head the legal department of a state agency in 2004 when he was assigned that role with the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services.  Kyle then opened his own law firm seventeen (17) years ago and he has focused his practice on domestic, criminal, business organizations, contracts, insurance, personal injury, and administrative law. Along with being licensed to practice law in all state courts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kyle is also licensed and has appeared numerous times before the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and has argued before the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2010, Kyle was sworn into practice before the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Roberts in Washington, D.C.