Julie Carman Denton (born June 16, 1960; formerly Julie Carman Rose) is a former member of the Kentucky Senate. She represented the 36th senate district from 1995 to 2015 as a Republican. ^{[1] [2] [3]} She succeeded Democrat Susan Johns, who had previously been the only woman in the state senate. Denton was noted to be pro-life. ^[3] In 2000, she was the co-chair of the Kentucky Senate's Brain Injury Task Force. ^[2] For chair assignments after 2009, she chaired the Health and Welfare Committee and co-chaired the Banking and Insurance Committee during the 2011/2012 legislative session. In the 2013-2014 legislative session, she chaired the Health and Welfare Committee again. In 2015, she was elected to the city council of Louisville, Kentucky, but did not seek re-election in 2018. ^[1]

Denton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 16, 1960, and attended Asbury University from 1977 to 1979 before transferring to the University of Louisville, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in dental hygiene in 1981. ^[2] After graduation, she worked as a dental hygienist until 2002 and as a consumer representative for General Electric from 1983 to 1986, while founding CPMC Corrections (a prison inmate phone call service) ^[4] in 1986 and owning it until 2002. ^[2] In 2012, she worked as the Vice President of Operations for Family Scholar House. ^[5] In 2013, she began working in real estate with RE/MAX and, in 2015, ^[2] became president of her own lobbying group. ^[6] Denton is married and has four children. ^[2]