When Amy was 13, she dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, but women were not yet allowed to serve in combat roles in our military. She wrote her Senator to ask him to change the law. She never heard back from Senator, Mitch McConnell and today she is running against him.

After the laws were finally changed, Amy attended the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer in 1997. She went on to serve 20 years in the Marines. In 2002, as a weapons systems officer, Amy became the first woman in the Marine Corps to fly a combat mission in an F/A-18. 

Her priorities as Senator are to make health care affordable and accessible to everyone, create programs that would offer opportunities for debt-free higher education; get dark money out of politics, take on climate change, be a strong voice in support of reasonable gun safety laws, and more.