Topic: Steve Nunn

Stephen R. "Steve" Nunn (born November 4, 1952 in Glasgow, Kentucky) is the former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was previously Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Glasgow, the seat of Barren County in southern Kentucky. He is the son of the late Kentucky Governor Louie B. Nunn. Nunn made national headlines when he was arrested in September 2009 on a murder charge in the death of his former fiancée.

Nunn unsuccessfully sought the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2003 but lost in the primary to then United States Representative Ernie Fletcher of Lexington, whom Nunn then supported. Nunn received 21,167 votes (13.4 percent) in the primary. Fletcher led the three-candidate field with 90,912 (57.3 percent). Rebecca Johnson polled 44,084 (27.8 percent). Fletcher went on to win the position in the general election by defeating Attorney General Ben Chandler. Fletcher was the first Kentucky Republican to be elected governor since Louie B. Nunn, Steve Nunn's father, in 1967.

On November 7, 2006, after 15 years as a state representative , Nunn lost his bid for re-election to the Democrat Johnny Bell. Nunn polled 5,572 votes (46.7 percent) to Bell's 6,371 ballots (53.3 percent).