FRANKFORT, Ky. — Senator C.B. Embry (R-Morgantown) has formally resigned from the state legislature, Senate President Robert Stivers announced Monday.

Embry announced his impending retirement during the 2022 legislative session, citing a long battle with cancer. He formally submitted his resignation from Kentucky's sixth senate district this week.

"It has been an honor of a lifetime to serve the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the good of the people of District 6,” Embry said in his resignation letter. “During my time in the Senate, I can truly say that I and my colleagues worked each day to make Kentucky an even greater state."

Embry has been elected 12 times to five different public offices, including the House of Representatives and his current position in the Senate, where he's served since 2014.

As a result of redistricting in 2022, Senator Embry’s District 6 was relocated to the north central portion of the state. Lindsey Tichenor garnered the most votes for the District 6 seat in the May primary.

A write-in candidate recently declared his intent to run against her in November’s general election. 

“C.B. Embry is the epitome of a committed public servant who traveled back and forth to Frankfort, scheduling his treatments around our floor and committee activity,” Stivers said in a press release. “He remained faithful to the office he was elected to and exercised the duties in which he dedicated his life. It has been an honor to serve in the Senate with such a dedicated person.”