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On March 27, 2020, Cameron called for halting abortions in Kentucky during the coronavirus pandemic, arguing it was an elective medical procedure that should fall under the statewide ban for the duration of the pandemic.

Cameron clerked for Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove in the Eastern District of Kentucky for two years. After the clerkship, Cameron served as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legal counsel. In 2017, Cameron joined Frost Brown Todd as a senior associate.

Cameron declared that he was running for Attorney General of Kentucky on January 21, 2019. He defeated State Senator Wil Schroder in the Republican primary by a margin of 132,400 (55.3%) votes to 106,950 (44.7%) votes. After the primary, Cameron was endorsed by President Donald Trump.

Cameron defeated Democratic former Attorney General Greg Stumbo in the November 2019 general election. He is the first Republican elected to be attorney general of Kentucky since Eldon S. Dummit was elected in 1944; Summit later left office in 1948. He is also the state's first African-American attorney general in history; Following Republican Lieutenant Governor Jenean Hampton, Cameron became Kentucky's second African-American statewide officer, and the first to be independently elected (given that Hampton had shared the 2015 gubernatorial ticket with Matt Bevin).

On December 17, 2019, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed an executive order appointing Cameron Attorney General of Kentucky. Immediately after the order was signed, Cameron was officially sworn in as the Attorney General. Cameron succeeded Beshear, who was sworn in as Governor on December 10, 2019, as the state's Attorney General. Under normal circumstances, Cameron would have taken office on January 6, 2020.

He graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Science in 2008, and then from the university's Brandeis School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 2011.

Cameron grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. His mother was a professor at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and his father owned a local coffee shop. A history buff as a boy, Cameron attended John Hardin High School in Elizabethtown and won a prize scholarship named in honor of Senator Mitch McConnell to attend the University of Louisville. At Louisville, Cameron played on the Louisville Cardinals football team in 2005 and 2006. A defensive back, Cameron came off the bench for the first two games of the 2006 season, during which Louisville won the 2007 Orange Bowl.

Daniel Jay Cameron (born November 22, 1985) is an American politician, former football player and lawyer who is the 51st Attorney General of Kentucky. Cameron is the first Republican elected to the office since 1944 and is the first African-American Attorney General of Kentucky.