Senator Julie Raque Adams Honored with 2025 Kentucky Chamber MVP Award
Senator Julie Raque Adams Honored with 2025 Kentucky Chamber MVP Award
Senator Julie Raque Adams was honored with the Kentucky Chamber MVP Award on July 9 by Kentucky Chamber Executive Committee Member Les Fugate of Brown-Forman Corporation, Kentucky Chamber Public Affairs Senior Vice President Kate Shanks, Marshall Farrer, EVP, Chief Strategic Growth Officer of Brown-Forman Corporation, Robinson Brown, IV, VP, Managing Director for the Emerging Business Group, Brown-Forman Corporation, and Kentucky Chamber Public Affairs Manager Annie Santos, during an event held at Brown-Forman’s headquarters in Louisville.
Sen. Raque Adams was among a select group of legislators who “went to bat” for Kentucky business during the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly by displaying conspicuous actions to strengthen business, improve competitiveness, and ensure growth.
Recipients of the Kentucky Chamber MVP Award show strong leadership for the business community by sponsoring or carrying Chamber priority legislation to final passage, showing leadership on passage of critical legislation to improve Kentucky, or by taking hard votes in defense of business.
Sen. Raque Adams was the primary sponsor of Senate Bill 202, which established a regulatory framework for hemp-derived beverages. Senate Bill 202 placed strong and time-tested safeguards for public safety, responsibility, manufacturing, wholesale, and retail sales on THC-infused intoxicating beverages, as the other intoxicating beverage industries have long been required to uphold. In addition, she was chair of the Senate Licensing & Occupations Committee and ensured that several pieces of pro-business legislation passed through it.
The 2025 General Assembly advanced many top priorities of the Kentucky business community, and the pro-growth policies that passed saved Kentucky businesses an estimated $1.084 billion, or $629 for each employer in the Commonwealth.
While monitoring the progress of bills that create a better business climate and advance the Commonwealth, the Chamber tracks how each legislator votes on these bills. The Chamber’s MVP Award recipients displayed more than just a business-friendly voting record, but also went out of their way, and at times across party lines, to support or oppose an issue critical to the business climate in Kentucky.
Learn more about business issues during the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly in the Kentucky Chamber’s “Results for Business” publication.
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