Which state bar associations, if any, currently list J.D. Vance as a member besides Kentucky?

1. What the documentary record reliably shows: Kentucky admission

Contemporary verification reporting and biographical summaries included in the source set show that Vance (admitted under the name James David Vance) passed the Kentucky bar exam in July 2013 and was admitted in October 2013, and mainstream summaries (including Wikipedia and a local TV verify piece) restate that Kentucky admission as the concrete, documented bar entry ^{[1] [2]}.

2. The claim that he’s listed in Ohio professional groups: a single organizational profile

A contributor profile on the Federalist Society site asserts that “Jedidiah is a member of the Ohio Association for Justice, Ohio State Bar Association, and the Columbus Bar Association” and lists Vance as tied to those Ohio groups ^[3]; that profile, however, is a third‑party organizational blurb and not a primary state bar roster or official licensing record ^[3].

3. Contradictory local reporting: no record of bar‑association membership in several states

Investigative local reporting published in FlaglerLive expressly states that there is “no record of Vance/Hamel ever belonging to the Bar Associations in Kentucky, California, Ohio, where he lived, or Illinois,” a claim that directly challenges the federalist/organizational listing and highlights gaps or inconsistencies in public membership records as presented to reporters ^{[4] [5]}.

4. Reconciling the conflict: admission versus association membership are different things

The sources collectively show a distinction the reader should note: formal admission to a state bar (a licensing act) is different from being a listed member of voluntary bar organizations or local bar associations; the Kentucky admission is documented ^{[1] [2]}, whereas organizational listings (such as the Federalist Society profile claiming Ohio association memberships) are not corroborated by the other reporting provided here and may reflect voluntary group memberships rather than state licensing rosters ^{[3] [4]}.

5. What the evidence in these sources permits one to conclude right now

Based only on the documents supplied, the only state bar admission that can be confirmed by mainstream verification and biographical sources is Kentucky ^{[1] [2]}; there is no corroborated, authoritative state bar registry cited in this collection that lists Vance as a member of another state’s bar, and the Federalsoc profile’s Ohio membership claims remain unverified and conflict with FlaglerLive’s reporting that found no record ^{[3] [4] [5]}.

6. Alternative viewpoints, motives, and limitations in the reporting

Two plausible explanations exist in the sources: either Vance holds voluntary memberships in Ohio organizations that are reported by an advocacy or professional profile ^[3] but were not captured or confirmed by the reporters who searched bar rosters and public records ^{[4] [5]}, or the organizational listing is erroneous or out of date; the materials provided do not include primary state bar rosters or an explicit statement from those Ohio organizations confirming current membership, so the discrepancy cannot be fully resolved here ^{[3] [4] [5]}.

7. Bottom line for readers following the paper trail

From the reporting provided, Kentucky is the only state bar admission that can be reliably cited; claims that J.D. Vance is listed as a member of other state bar associations—most notably the Ohio groups named in the Federalist Society profile—are present in the source set but remain uncorroborated or contradicted by other local reporting and therefore cannot be accepted as confirmed without consulting primary state bar membership rosters or direct confirmations from the named organizations ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}.