Attorneys

Brian Stempien is the newest member of the Travis & Herbert team. Since joining the firm, he has hit the ground running, leading numerous cases to favorable resolution and successfully arguing complicated issues with significant importance for Kentucky insurance law.

For eight and a half years prior to attending law school, Brian served as an Officer and Attack Helicopter Pilot in the United States Marine Corp. During this time, Brian excelled as a pilot and flight instructor, graduating at the top of his class in flight school and earning various distinctions and awards for his leadership, instructional abilities, and combat experience. While on active duty in the Marine Corps, Brian completed three overseas deployments, including two deployments, in 2004 and 2006, to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II. At the prompting of his lovely wife, Brian left active duty after the birth of their first child to pursue the law, and remains an active member of the USMC Reserve, having achieved the rank of Major in 2009.

Brian grew up in Connecticut, and completed his undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University, receiving a Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 and entering the Marine Corps upon graduation. After leaving active duty, Brian received his law degree from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville graduating summa cum laude. While in law school, Brian was a member of the most successful National Moot Court Team in school history, an editor on the Law Review, served as a student member of the Brandeis Inn of Court, and spent a year teaching Constitutional law to seniors at Louisville’s Central High School.

When he has free time, Brian enjoys all types of physical activity, wood working, and working on his home. Currently, Brian is CrossFit certified and has completed a half-ironman, marathon, and several smaller races.

Brian is currently married to a Louisville native and has three children, with the newest little one having arrived in April of 2011.